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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Charles S. Draper

Title:

Head, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics

Affiliation:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1987

Award Discipline:

Engineering

Award Year:

1964

Citation:

"For [his] innumerable imaginative engineering achievements which met urgent National needs of instrumentation, control, and guidance in aeronautics and astronautics."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.

 

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