Word: ridenour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Louis N. Ridenour Jr., 47, top-notch nuclear physicist who, despite being emotional about his specialty (in 1946 he wrote a grim, prophetic, one-act play about flocks of satellite bombs orbiting 800 miles above the doomed earth), pioneered in missile programs as chief scientist (1950-51) of the Air Force, helped develop the Polaris and X-17 missiles as research director of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s missile-systems division, became a Lockheed vice president last March; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington...
...RICHARD RIDENOUR Falls Church...
...aeronautical engineers at Lockheed has brought the resignation of Physicist Dr. Ernst H. Krause, missiles research laboratories director, and a score of other top scientists. Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. Quesada quit as vice president for missiles six weeks ago. To replace Krause, Lockheed promoted topflight Physicist Louis Ridenour, promised to keep its $32 million missile program going without interruption...
...examine its courses. Moreover, though enrollments have more than doubled, to 24,394, he wanted classes kept small (ideal: no more than 30 students). To keep classes small, Stoddard more than doubled the faculty, and brought in some top men while he was about it. Among them: Physicist Louis Ridenour of the University of Pennsylvania, Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy of Northwestern, Pianist Soulima (son of Igor) Stravinsky. Stoddard set up a new department of preventive medicine and public health, an institute, of public affairs and an institute of labor and industrial relations...
...Ridenour concludes, "the official silence on radiological warfare probably is expressive of [military security] rather than disinterest...