Charles Stark Draper
Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.
Charles Stark Draper | |
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Charles Stark Draper in 1966 | |
| Born | October 2, 1901 Windsor, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | July 25, 1987 (aged 85) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1926; M.S., Physics, 1936; Sc.D., Physics, 1938) Stanford University (B.A., Psychology, 1922) |
| Awards | Magellanic Premium (1959) National Medal of Science (1964) Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1966) Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1971) Allan D. Emil Memorial Award (1977) Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1981) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Control theory |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | The physical processes accompanying detonation in the internal combustion engine (1938) |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip M. Morse |
| Doctoral students | Yao-Tzu Li, Robert Seamans |
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