Robert A. Frosch

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Robert Alan Frosch
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
In office
June 21, 1977 – January 20, 1981
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byJames C. Fletcher
Succeeded byJames M. Beggs
Personal details
Born(1928-05-22)May 22, 1928
New York City
DiedDecember 30, 2020(2020-12-30) (aged 92)
United Nations Environmental Program
NASA
ThesisMagnetic hyperfine structure in diatomic molecules (1952)

Robert Alan Frosch

FREng[1] (May 22, 1928 – December 30, 2020) was an American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA. He was the administrator from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration
.

Biography

Born in New York City, Frosch was educated in the public school system in The Bronx. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in theoretical physics at Columbia University.[2]

Between September 1951 and August 1963, Frosch worked as a research scientist and director of research programs for Hudson Laboratories of Columbia University in Dobbs Ferry, New York, an organization under contract to the Office of Naval Research. Until 1953, he worked on problems in underwater sound, sonar, oceanography, marine geology, and marine geophysics. Frosch was first associate and then director of the laboratories, where he managed 300 employees, two ocean-going research vessels, and a $3.5 million annual budget for fundamental research and engineering. During this period he was also technical director of Project Artemis, a very large experimental active sonar system development.

In September 1963, Frosch went to Washington, D.C., to work with the

United Nations Environmental Program
. With the rank of assistant secretary general of the United Nations, he was responsible for substantive global program activities of the United Nations system and other international activities related to environment matters.

Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development meets the Commanding Officer of Naval Undersea Warfare Station.

While at NASA, Frosch was responsible for overseeing the continuation of the development effort on the

Dryden Flight Research Center
in southern California.

He was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1989.[1]

Frosch left NASA with the change of administrations in January 1981 to become vice president for research at the

Maurice Holland Award from the Industrial Research Institute for a paper published in IRI's journal, Research Management.[3] In 1996, his leadership at GM was recognized once more by IRI with the presentation of their official Medal. After retiring, he remained active in scientific and technical policy activities; as a senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a guest investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
.

Frosch died in South Hadley, Massachusetts, on December 30, 2020, at the age of 92, after a long illness.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "List of Fellows".
  2. OCLC 35805315 – via ProQuest
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  3. ^ Frosch, Robert A. "R&D Choices and Technology Transfer," Research Management, Vol. 27, No. 3 (May–June 1984), pp. 11-14.
  4. ^ "Robert A. Frosch". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Retrieved January 3, 2022.

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