About: William E. Brunk

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

William E. "Bill" Brunk (born 1928) was an American astronomer and NASA administrator. He was educated at high school in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the local Case Institute of Technology in 1948, gaining a B.S. in 1952 and an M.S. in Astronomy in 1954. He worked as a research scientist and aeronaut in the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory from 1954 until 1958, before moving to the NASA Lewis Research Center as an aerospace research engineer, working there from 1958 to 1964. He retired from NASA in 1985.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • William E. "Bill" Brunk (born 1928) was an American astronomer and NASA administrator. He was educated at high school in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the local Case Institute of Technology in 1948, gaining a B.S. in 1952 and an M.S. in Astronomy in 1954. He worked as a research scientist and aeronaut in the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory from 1954 until 1958, before moving to the NASA Lewis Research Center as an aerospace research engineer, working there from 1958 to 1964. He returned to the Case Institute in 1963 to earn his Ph.D. in astronomy, before accepting the position of staff scientist for the Voyager mission (1964-1965). He was then acting Chief (1965) and later Program Chief of Planetary Astronomy at NASA headquarters (1965-1982), where he played an important role in the construction of the 2.6-m reflector at the McDonald Observatory and the Infrared Telescope Facility at Mauna Kea. He retired from NASA in 1985. (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 44800412 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2649 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1103668723 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • William E. "Bill" Brunk (born 1928) was an American astronomer and NASA administrator. He was educated at high school in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the local Case Institute of Technology in 1948, gaining a B.S. in 1952 and an M.S. in Astronomy in 1954. He worked as a research scientist and aeronaut in the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory from 1954 until 1958, before moving to the NASA Lewis Research Center as an aerospace research engineer, working there from 1958 to 1964. He retired from NASA in 1985. (en)
rdfs:label
  • William E. Brunk (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects 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