About: Louis Purnell

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Louis Rayfield Purnell, Sr. (April 5, 1920 – August 10, 2001) was a noted curator at the United States' National Air and Space Museum and earlier in life, a decorated Tuskegee Airman. At the museum, he became expert in space flight artifacts, particularly spacesuits, and was instrumental in curating artifacts related to space exploration, during the pivotal years of the 1960s and into the 1980s. Purnell was the first African-American to become a curator at the Smithsonian Institution.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Louis Rayfield Purnell, Sr. (April 5, 1920 – August 10, 2001) was a noted curator at the United States' National Air and Space Museum and earlier in life, a decorated Tuskegee Airman. At the museum, he became expert in space flight artifacts, particularly spacesuits, and was instrumental in curating artifacts related to space exploration, during the pivotal years of the 1960s and into the 1980s. Purnell was the first African-American to become a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. Earlier, as a captain in the Army Air Corps and a fighter pilot, he served in the European and North African theater during World War II. For his service during the war, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters. (en)
dbo:almaMater
dbo:birthDate
  • 1920-04-05 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:birthYear
  • 1920-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:deathDate
  • 2001-08-10 (xsd:date)
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:deathYear
  • 2001-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:education
dbo:employer
dbo:occupation
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 36149798 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 10963 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1047376661 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:almaMater
dbp:birthDate
  • 1920-04-05 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:caption
  • Louis R. Purnell, Curator at NASM (en)
dbp:children
  • 3 (xsd:integer)
dbp:deathDate
  • 2001-08-10 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
dbp:education
dbp:employer
dbp:name
  • Louis Rayfield Purnell, Sr. (en)
dbp:nationality
  • American (en)
dbp:occupation
  • Curator and Museum Specialist (en)
dbp:spouse
  • JoAnn (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Louis Rayfield Purnell, Sr. (April 5, 1920 – August 10, 2001) was a noted curator at the United States' National Air and Space Museum and earlier in life, a decorated Tuskegee Airman. At the museum, he became expert in space flight artifacts, particularly spacesuits, and was instrumental in curating artifacts related to space exploration, during the pivotal years of the 1960s and into the 1980s. Purnell was the first African-American to become a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Louis Purnell (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Louis Rayfield Purnell, Sr. (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License