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Dr. Louis N. Ridenour (June 27, 1911 – May 21, 1959) was a physicist instrumental in U.S. development of radar, Vice President of Lockheed, and an advisor to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. == Biography and positions held == During World War II, Ridenour worked at the MIT Radiation Laboratory. He was co-leader with Ivan A. Getting of the group that developed the SCR-584 radar. He directed a committee in 1949 that recommended the establishment of a separate Research and Development Command and a new Air Staff Deputy Chief of Staff for Research and Development. In 1950, Dr Ridenour was named the First chief scientist of the Air Force in charge of the command Served on the Scientific Advisory Committee for Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground,〔Pamphlet; Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Ordnance Corps, Department of the Navy, November 1953〕 Chairman of the National Security Agency Scientific Advisory Board Panel on Electronics and Data Processing from its inception 27 January 1959 until his death in May. Theodore von Karman Award, by the Air Force Association, 1960 In 1941 he became the assistant director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory and helped transform primitive radar into a reliable defensive and offensive military tool. In 1946 Dr. Ridenour returned to the University of Pennsylvania for one year and then in 1947 he became dean of the Graduate College of the University of Illinois. During the next three years as dean, he was instrumental in establishing the Control Systems Laboratory, the Digital Computer Laboratory, and the Radio Carbon Laboratory, as well as a microbiology group and solid state group.〔http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA166671〕 Dr. Ridenour was married to Gretchen Kraemer; they had two daughters, Nancy Page Buchanan (née Ridenour) and Eleanor Fay. Dr. Ridenour died of a brain hemorrhage at age 47. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Ridenour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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