Bill Pickering
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Rocket scientist born in New Zealand
Bill Pickering 's Degrees
- Masters Mechanical Engineering California Institute of Technology
Why Is Bill Pickering Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Hayward Pickering was a New Zealand-born aerospace engineer who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. Pickering was also a founding member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.
Bill Pickering 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Modified high speed Geiger counter circuit (1938) (20)
- The Mechanism of Cosmic-Ray Counter Action (1934) (19)
- Results of a High Altitude Cosmic-Ray Survey Near the Magnetic Equator (1942) (13)
- A Hypothesis as to the Origin of Cosmic Rays and Its Experimental Testing in India and Elsewhere (1942) (10)
- Further Studies on the Origin of Cosmic Rays Helium Annihilation Rays and the Cause of Their Variability with Time (1944) (9)
- Two Voltage Regulators (1939) (8)
- Further tests of the atom-annihilation hypothesis as to the origin of the cosmic rays (1943) (7)
- A Note on the Production of Cosmic-Ray Showers (1935) (4)
- A Cosmic‐Ray Radio Sonde (1942) (4)
- A Light Weight, High Voltage Supply for Geiger Counters (1941) (4)
- Cosmic Ray Research (1937) (4)
- Recent Studies of the Cosmic-Ray Latitude Effect at High Altitudes (1948) (3)
- Countdown to space exploration: A memoir of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1944 - 1958 (1977) (3)
- Origin of Cosmic Rays (1943) (2)
- An Improved Cosmic-Ray Radio Sonde (1943) (2)
- The Latitude Effect for Cosmic-Ray Showers (1938) (2)
- The production of cosmic-ray showers at great depths (1937) (2)
- Missiles, rockets, and space flight (1959) (1)
- The Selection of Space Experiments (1966) (1)
- Secondary Particles from the Penetrating Component of the Cosmic Radiation (1937) (1)
- A New Cosmic-Ray Telescope for High Altitudes (1948) (1)
- The geographical variation of the cosmic-ray showers (1936) (1)
- Blossoming of the space age, 1961–1971 (1994) (0)
- HYPOTHESIS AS TO THE ORIGIN OF COSMIC RAYS AND THE EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF IT IN INDIA AND ELSEWHERE. (1941) (0)
- A Geiger Counter Study of the Cosmic Radiations (1936) (0)
- An attempt to measure the latitude effect of extensive cosmic-ray showers (1940) (0)
- A new technique for investigating the ionosphere at low and very low radio frequencies (1954) (0)
- LOW FREQUENCY, CONTINUOUS WAVE, IONOSPHERIC RESEARCH (1953) (0)
- Primary Cosmic-Ray Protons and the Atom-Annihilation Hypothesis (1947) (0)
- Atoms and Cosmic Rays (1936) (0)
- The opening decade of space exploration - The United States program. (1968) (0)
- Space programs summary no. 37-31, volume iv for the period december 1, 1964 to january 31, 1965. supporting research and advanced development (1965) (0)
- Space programs summary no. 37-30, volume iii for the period september 1, 1964 to october 31, 1964. the deep space network (1964) (0)
- Communications throughout the solar system (1962) (0)
- Toward New Horizons. Volume 3. Technical Intelligence Supplement (1946) (0)
- Application of aerospace failure-reporting systems to power plants. Final report (1980) (0)
- Stardust on the Bar: Space Fallout in Criminalistics (1974) (0)
- Toward New Horizons. Volume 8. Guided Missiles and Pilotless Aircraft (1946) (0)
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