| LC control no. | no 89008338 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Herzfeld, Charles, 1925-2017 |
| Variant(s) | Herzfeld, Charles Maria, 1925-2017 |
| Associated place | Chicago (Ill.) New York (N.Y.) Washington (D.C.) |
| Located | Silver Spring (Md.) |
| Birth date | 1925-06-29 |
| Death date | 2017-02-23 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | Silver Spring (Md.) |
| Field of activity | National security Chemistry, Physical and theoretical Technology |
| Affiliation | University of Chicago United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency ITT Corporation Aetna, Jacobs, Ramo Technology Ventures United States. Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering Potomac Institute for Policy Studies |
| Found in | His Technology for national security, 1988: p. i (Charles Herzfeld, Working Group on Technology, Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy) Temperature, its measurement and control in science and industry, c1962-1982: t.p. (Charles Maria Herzfeld) OCLC, Aug. 9, 2011 (hdg: Herzfeld, Charles Maria, 1925-) Dignity Memorial WWW site, viewed Mar. 27, 2017 (Charles Maria Herzfeld, June 29, 1925-February 23, 2017; scientist, national security expert, and businessman; died at home in Silver Spring, MD; born in Vienna, Austria; arrived in America in October 1942; Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1951; in 1961 he was recruited to work at the Defense Department's ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), now known as DARPA; headed the Ballistic Missile Defense Program from 1961 to 1963, served as Assistant Director from 1963 to 1965, and Director from 1965 to 1967; after leaving ARPA, he relocated to the New York City area where he was vice president for research and technology at ITT Corporation, and later vice chairman of Aetna, Jacobs, Ramo Technology Ventures; returned to Washington DC in 1990 to serve President George H.W. Bush first in the Department of Defense as the Director of Defense Research and Engineering from 1990 to 1991 and then in the White House as senior consultant to Alan Bromley, the Science Advisor to the President from 1991 to 1992; most recently he was a Senior Fellow and Member of the Board of Regents of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies) Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Charles Herzfeld papers, 1892-2014 (Charles Herzfeld; born 1925; died 2017) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no2011123443 |
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