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Aug 26, 2012 · Astrophysicist George Robert Carruthers was born on October 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a civil engineer and his mother worked for the US ...
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Jan 8, 2021 · Carruthers was born on October 1, 1939, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first child (of four) of George Archer Carruthers and Sophia Singley Carruthers ...
Carruthers was the eldest of four children. His father was a civil engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers and his mother was a homemaker.
Feb 24, 2021 · George Carruthers, Sr. was a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Air Corps, and encouraged his son's early interests in science. By the age of 10, ...
Feb 4, 2021 · George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939–December 26, 2020) was an African-American inventor, physicist, engineer, and space scientist.
A private man, Carruthers devotes his life to his research and is characteristically low-key about his own contributions. Married in 1973, he has continued ...
George Robert Carruthers is the recipient of Sigma Xi's 2015 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation. He is an inventor, physicist, and space scientist.
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George Robert Carruthers

American physicist and engineer
George Robert Carruthers was an American space physicist and engineer. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972. Wikipedia
Born: October 1, 1939, Cincinnati, OH
Died: December 26, 2020 (age 81 years), Washington, D.C.
Known for: Invention of the ultraviolet camera/spectrograph

He and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was 12. Carruthers later entered the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, earning a bachelor's ...
George Carruthers, Sr., who died when his son was 12 years old, was a civil engineer with the. U.S. Army Air Corps, and encouraged his son's early interests in ...
This oral history is with Dr. George Carruthers, at his office at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.