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Houbolt, John C

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Personal name headingHoubolt, John C.
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Associated placeHampton (Va.) Zurich (Switzerland)
LocatedScarborough (Me.)
Birth date19190410
Death date20140415
Place of birthAltoona (Iowa)
Place of deathScarborough (Me.)
Field of activityAerospace engineering
AffiliationUnited States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Profession or occupationAerospace engineers
Found inEnchanted rendezvous, 1995: t.p. (John C. Houbolt) foreword (engineer at Langley Res. Cent. in the 1960's)
Los Angeles times WWW site, Apr. 22, 2014 (in obituary dated Apr. 21, 2014: John C. Houbolt; born April 10, 1919, in Altoona, Iowa; d. Apr. 15, Scarborough, Me., at 95; started his career with NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, in Hampton, Va., in 1942; left in 1963 to work for an aeronautical research and consulting firm in Princeton, N.J., then returned to NASA in 1976 as chief aeronautical scientist at Langley Field Center in Virginia; retired in 1985; doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich)
Legacy.com, via WWW, Apr. 22, 2014 (Dr. John C. Houbolt; Dr. John Cornelius Houbolt of Scarborough, ME; d. Apr. 15, 2014)
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