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Howard P Robertson

Mathematician. Physicist. California Institute of Technology. Princeton University. The Man who proved Einsten wrong.

1956 to 1961 - Member of the Presidents Science Advisory Committee (President Dwight D. Eisenhower)

28 Feb 1960, NY Times, Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter, said that “behind the scences, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFO’s. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown glying objects are nonsense.[4][5]

1956 to 1961 - Chairman of the Defense Science Board (appointed and advise the U.S. Department of Defense on scientific and technical matters).

1954 to 1955 - Scientific Advisor to the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

1953 - Chairman of the Robertson Panel on UFOs, which investigated the large number of UFO reports being made at the time, concluding that in all likelihood the reports were all explicable as natural phenomena or mistaken interpretations of everyday aerial objects.

Served with the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). Many divisions and sections, most noteably; Manhattan Project, Radiation Laboratory at MIT, Underwater Sound Laboratory.

1943, Robertson became the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) chief scientific liaison officer in London.[1,26] He became close friends with Reginald Victor Jones,[1,27] and Solly Zuckerman praised the work Robertson and Jones did on scrambling radar beams and beacons.[1,28]

During and after WW2, Robertson played a central role in American scientific intelligence.

1940, Robertson developed the theory of invariants of tensors to derive the Kármán–Howarth equation, which was later used by George Batchelor and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in the theory of axisymmetric turbulence to derive Batchelor–Chandrasekhar equation.[1,25]

Robertson carried out his post-doctoral research in Germany, mainly at the University of Göttingen, which was then the world’s center of mathematics. At Göttingen he met some of the world’s greatest mathematicians and physicists including David Hilbert, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, John von Neumann, and Eugene Wigner.[2]

Died 26 Aug 1961. Pulmonary embolism (can make a heart attack more likely) resulting from Car Accident. Aged 58. He was survived by his wife Angela (née Turinsky) and their children George and Marietta.

Note: JFK Presidency started on 20 Jan 1961. Search mind map.

[1] - FYI - Wiki - Howard P. Robertson

[1,25] - Robertson 1937, pp. 423–438. Robertson, H. P.(April 1937). “Dynamical effects of radiation in the solar system”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 97 (6): 423–438. Bibcode:1937MNRAS..97..423R. doi:10.1093/mnras/97.6.423

[[1,26] Robertson, H. P.(1940, April). The invariant theory of isotropic turbulence. In Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 209–223). Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S0305004100017199

[1,27] - SIAM 1962, pp. 742–743. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (December 1962). “H. P. Robertson: 1903–1961”. Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 10 (4): 741–750. doi:10.1137/0110056. JSTOR 2098919

[1,28] - Jones 1978, pp. 378–379. Jones, Reginald Victor (1978). The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939–1945. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. ISBN 9780698108967.

[[2] - Famousscientists.org - The man who proved einstein wrong] https://www.famousscientists.org/man-who-proved-einstein-wrong/

[3] - FYI - Wiki - National Defense Research Committee

[4] - 28 Feb 1960, NY Times - Air Force Order on ‘Saucers’ cited.

[5] - As above.

[6] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[7] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley