biography
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| (1913– )
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| biography:
| Engineer and aerospace executive, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He developed microwave technology at General Electric and made Hughes Aircraft a major defence contractor before co-founding the Los Angeles-based Ramo-Wooldridge Corp (later TRW) and Bunker Ramo. As chief scientist of the US intercontinental ballistic missile programme (1954–8) he helped to develop the Atlas, Titan, and Minuteman missiles. Retired in 1978, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983). |
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