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Charles Stark Draper

1901 - 1987

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Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American 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, which was later spun out of MIT to become the non-profit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Beginning in the 1940s, Draper developed inertial guidance systems for aircraft. In World War II, Draper invented the first lead-computing gunsights for aircraft, and later applying similar technology to missile guidance systems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Stark Draper is the 724th most popular physicist (down from 642nd in 2019), the 8,843rd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,444th in 2019) and the 160th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Stark Draper ranks 724 out of 851. Before him are Elliott H. Lieb, Alexei Starobinsky, Stuart Hameroff, Raymond Gosling, Bill Nye, and Ernst Ising. After him are Rudolf Haag, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Nicholas Metropolis, Gerald Guralnik, Karl Taylor Compton, and Walter Gordon.

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Among people born in 1901, Charles Stark Draper ranks 299. Before him are Alexis Chantraine, Felipe Molas López, Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, Georgy Ushakov, Gerald Finzi, and Endre Steiner. After him are Hans Drakenberg, Frank Fisher, Martin Schröttle, Inga Tidblad, Hanns Seidel, and Leon Shamroy. Among people deceased in 1987, Charles Stark Draper ranks 216. Before him are Alexis Chantraine, Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, Hannelore Schroth, Carlo Cassola, Håkan Malmrot, and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. After him are Marcos Calderón, Stanislav Lusk, József Kovács, William J. Casey, Bayard Rustin, and George Mikes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Stark Draper ranks 8,845 out of 20,380. Before him are John Lipsky (1947), Marc Randolph (1958), Glenne Headly (1955), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), William Fields (1929), and Alley Mills (1951). After him are Faith Domergue (1924), Monte Hellman (1932), Candy Barr (1935), Bode Miller (1977), Bruce Abbott (1954), and Adolph Kiefer (1918).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Charles Stark Draper ranks 160. Before him are Harold Agnew (1921), Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Joseph Polchinski (1954), Elliott H. Lieb (1932), Stuart Hameroff (1947), and Bill Nye (1955). After him are Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), James Hartle (1939), Seymour Benzer (1921), and Shirley Ann Jackson (1946).

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