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||1987: Charles Stark "Doc" Draper dies ... 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.
||1987: Charles Stark "Doc" Draper dies ... 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.


||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262
||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=toru+kumon&oq=Toru+Kumon


||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond
||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262.


||2008: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design
||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond.
 
||2008: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design.


||2013: Hugh Huxley dies ... biologist and academic.
||2013: Hugh Huxley dies ... biologist and academic.

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