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Philip Van Horn Weems (March 29, 1889 – June 2, 1979) was a United States Navy officer, inventor of navigational instruments and methods, including the Weems Plotter and the Second Setting Watch,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Invention of Precision Navigational Instruments for Air and Sea Navigation )〕 and author of navigational textbooks. ==Biography== Weems was born in Tennessee, the son of Joseph Burch and May Elizabeth Rye Weems. When he was a child, he and his six brothers and one sister were orphaned. He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1908. At the Academy, he excelled at various sports, and was an All-American center on the Navy football team.〔 (Later, he was selected for the 1920 U.S. Olympic wrestling team;〔 however, there is no record of him actually competing at the Games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wrestling at the 1920 Antwerpen Summer Games )〕) He graduated in the class of 1912 and was commissioned an ensign.〔 He specialized in navigation and taught at the Academy.〔 In 1915, he married Margaret Thackray. In 1927, Weems was sent to the Aircraft Squadron Battle Fleet, before being assigned to the tanker USS ''Cuyama'' as its executive officer from 1928 to 1930.〔 He retired for the first time in 1933 with the rank of lieutenant commander. Weems returned to active service in 1942, serving in World War II as a convoy commander, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star. He was promoted to captain in 1945 and retired the following year. With the dawn of the space age, he was called upon to teach space navigation at the Naval Academy from 1961 to 1962.〔 The Weems had two sons and a daughter, Margaret. Both sons predeceased him. Major Philip van Horn Weems, Jr. was killed in the southwest Pacific in 1943, while Lieutenant Commander George Thackray "Bee" Weems died while testing an airplane.〔 Philip Van Horn Weems died on June 2, 1979, at the age of ninety. 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「P. V. H. Weems」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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