Hans Mark

Hans Mark (1998)

Mark, Chancellor of the University of Texas System (1986)

Hans Michael Mark (born June 17, 1929 in Mannheim , † December 18, 2021 in Austin , Texas ) was an American physicist , engineer and science manager. He held high civilian positions in the Air Force and NASA and was director of the National Reconnaissance Office from 1977 to 1979 .

biography

Hans Mark, son of the chemist Herman Mark , spent his early childhood in Austria . Immediately after the annexation of Austria in 1938, he and his family fled the Nazis from Vienna to England and in 1940 to the USA. He became a US citizen in 1945, attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City and studied physics at the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his doctorate in 1954. At that time he was engaged in experimental nuclear physics and neutron physics . From 1955 to 1958 he was at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, then an assistant professor at MIT and again in 1960 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . In 1964 he became head of the nuclear technology department at the University of California at Berkeley and was responsible for the Berkeley Research Reactor .

From 1969 he was director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View . From 1977 to 1979 he was Undersecretary of State for the Air Force and Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, which administered US spy satellites. From 1981 to 1984 he was Deputy Administrator of NASA. From 1984 to 1992 he was Chancellor of the University of Texas System and then Professor of Aircraft Technology at the University of Texas at Austin . Between 1998 and 2001 he was Director of Defense Research and Engineering at the Pentagon.

He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the National Academy of Engineering . In 2008 he received the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award from the Space Foundation and in 2006 the Military Astronautics Award from the American Astronautical Society.

Fonts

• The Space Station: a personal journey, Duke University Press 1987
• as editor: Encyclopedia of Space Science and Technology, 2 volumes, Wiley 2003
• with others: Traditional moral values ​​in the age of technology, University of Texas Press 1987
• with Victor G. Szebehely: Adventures in Celestial Mechanics, 2nd edition, Wiley 1988
• with Edward Teller , John S. Foster Jr .: Power and Security, Lexington Books 1976
• with Arnold Levine: The management of research institutions: a look at government laboratories, Washington DC, NASA 1984
• with N. Thomas Olson: Experiments in Modern Physics, McGraw Hill 1966
• Editor with Lowell Wood: Energy in physics, war and peace: a festschrift celebrating Edward Teller's 80th birthday, Kluwer 1988
• Editor with Sidney Fernbach : Properties of matter under unusual conditions; in honor of Edward Teller's 60th birthday, Interscience 1969

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Mark, former secretary of Air Force and NASA deputy who fled Nazis, dies at 92

Web links

Commons : Hans Mark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at NASA