Charles Stark Draper Scientist

Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.

Personal facts

Birth dateOctober 02, 1901
Birth place
Missouri , Windsor Missouri
Nationality
United States
Date of deathJuly 25, 1987
Place of death
Cambridge Massachusetts
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University

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Scientist

Field of study
Control theory

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External resources

  1. http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/people/csdraper.htm
  2. http://books.google.com/books?id=QymEXZIWEe8C&printsec=frontcover
  3. http://www.draperlab.com
  4. http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/46.html
  5. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/draper-charles.pdf