Thomas Keith Glennan

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Thomas Keith Glennan (1964)

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 .

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