Bill Pickering
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 19 years ago |
Date of birth | December 24,1910 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Wellington |
New Zealand | |
Date of died | March 15,2004 |
Died | La Canada Flintridge |
CA | |
Known for | Space aeronautics |
Space aeronautics pioneering | |
Academic advisor | Robert Andrews Millikan |
Job | Physicist |
Electrical engineer | |
Education | University of Canterbury |
California Institute of Technology | |
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ID | 642593 |
Bill Pickering Life story
William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE was a New Zealand-born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space.