| LC control no. | n 82226761 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Carruthers, George R. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1939-10-01 |
| Death date | 2020-12-26 |
| Place of birth | Cincinnati (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics Aerospace engineering |
| Affiliation | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.) United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration United States. Department of Defense |
| Profession or occupation | Scientists Inventors |
| Found in | Page, T. Revised S201 catalog of far-ultraviolet objects, 1982 (a.e.) t.p. (George R. Carruthers, Space Science Div., Naval Res. Lab., Wash., D.C.) African American National Biography, accessed January 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Carruthers, George R.; scientist, inventor; born 01 October 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; BS in aeronautical engineering (1961), MS in nuclear engineering (1962) and PhD in aeronautical and astronautical engineering (1964) from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign; worked at the Naval Research Laboratories, Washington, D.C. (1964); worked for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and U.S. Department of Defense; National Institute of Science presented him the Outstanding Scientist Award (2000); inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in recognition of his ultraviolet electrographic camera invention (2003); Science Spectrum magazine and Career Communications Group, Inc., selected him as one of the 50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science (2004)) |
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