Thomas Keith Glennan
Thomas Keith Glennan (born September 8, 1905 in Enderlin , North Dakota , USA ; † April 11, 1995 in Mitchellville , Maryland ) was the first head of the US space agency NASA between August 1958 and January 1961 .
Glennan graduated in electrical engineering at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University from the 1927th He became head of the Electrical Research Products Company , a subsidiary of Western Electric . He later became a studio manager at Paramount Pictures and worked briefly at Vega Airplane Corporation . In 1942 he began to work in war research at Columbia University . First he was there administrator, then director of US Navy's Underwater Sound Laboratories (laboratories for the study of underwater noise of the US Navy) in New London , Connecticut. From 1950 to 1952 he was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission . In 1958 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1970 to 1973 he was Henry De Wolf Smyth's successor as the diplomatic representative of the United States at the International Atomic Energy Agency .
Web links
- NASA biography (English)
- Written estate and curriculum vitae in tabular form (PDF; 11 kB) in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (English)
- T. Keith Glennan, 89, First Chief of Space Agency , obituary by David Binder in the New York Times, April 12, 1995
- Thomas Keith Glennan in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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SURNAME | Glennan, Thomas Keith |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | first head of NASA |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1905 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Enderlin , North Dakota |
DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1995 |
Place of death | Mitchellville , Maryland |