Radio and Radar Astronomy

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Committee Serial No. 14. Reviews research programs at NSF, National Bureau of Standards, National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., and Boulder Laboratories of the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory.
 

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Page 75 - He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Page 75 - Universities and Chairman of the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences; Dr. James W. Fesler, professor of government, Yale University; Dr. Kent Roberts Greenfield, chief historian, retired, Department of the Army; Dr. Allan Nevins, professor emeritus of American history, Columbia University, president of the Society of American Historians; Dr. Robert...
Page 42 - The Central Radio Propagation Laboratory is the central agency of the Federal Government for obtaining, analyzing, and disseminating information on the propagation of radio waves at all frequencies along the surface of the earth, in the atmosphere, and in space.
Page 59 - CRYOGENIC ENGINEERING The Bureau's activities in cryogenic engineering, a rapidly growing specialized field, center at the Boulder Laboratories. The Bureau provides information needed for practical applications of materials, systems, and techniques at very low temperatures, and assists Government and industry with problems arising in this field.
Page 40 - ... September 1944 his services were loaned to the War Department where he served as Expert Consultant to the Secretary of War to assist in the evaluation of VT fuzes and electronic aids to bombing and their proper exploitation In military operations. This Involved an overseas mission In the European Theatre of Operations to arrange for the training of combat crews and Indoctrination of officers about the capabilities and use of these new weapons. He also served with an evaluation team surveying...
Page 60 - ... in determining density, liquid level and quality of the fluid by capacitance measurements. Assistance is being given to Projects CENTAUR, ROVER, and NERVA. The CENTAUR first space vehicle to use liquid hydrogen as a propellant, will be followed by the nuclear rocket programs, ROVER and NERVA, that are planning more extensive use of liquid hydrogen. The physical properties of hydrogen are sufficiently different from other propellants to present many new problems to the industry. Principal contractors...
Page 40 - ... Operations to arrange for the training of combat crews and indoctrination of officers about the capabilities and use of these new weapons. He also served with an evaluation team surveying German developments along similar lines. In 1946 Dr. Huntoon returned to NBS to serve as Chief of the Electronics Section of the Ordnance Development Division where he directed fundamental research on electronic digital computers, electron physics, electronic instrumentation and electronic ordnance devices....
Page 41 - Certificate of Merit and Department of Commerce Exceptional Service Award for VT fuze contributions, Washington Academy of Sciences Award in Physical Sciences, Certificates of Appreciation from the OSRD, War Department, and Secretary of War, a Naval Ordnance Development Award for contributions to Electronic Ordnance and Achievement Award from Alumni of Iowa State Teachers College. Richard M.
Page 7 - He has served as a principal investigator on research projects supported by the Office of Naval Research, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...