Lloyd V. Berkner
Physicist. Engineer. Fellow of the American Acaemy of Arts and Sciences (1956). University of Minnesota (Electrical Engineering).
1960 to 1965 - President of the Graduate Research Center of the South-west. Continued as Chairman of it’s board of trustees.[3]
1958 to 1962 - As Chairman of the Academy’s Space Science Board, he was instrumental in developing U.S. space research programs.[3]
1955 to 1958 - President of the International Council of Scientific Unions.[3]
1953 - Member of the Robertson Panel.
1951 to 1960 - Berkner was head of Associated Universities, Inc., formed by nine universities to operate the Brookhaven Natonal Laboratory for the Atomic Energy Commission.[3]
1950 - He suggested the International Geophysical year, which took place in 1957 and 58. Geophysical year was being used by Eisenhower manage Soviet allowance of satelites.[3]
1949 - asked by Secretary of State Dean Acheson (S&K 1915) to setup the first military assistance program under NATO in 1949, and was largely responsible in 1950 for the assignment of scientific attaches to American embassies abroad.[3]
1928 - Following graduation, he went to Antartica as a radio technician with Admiral Richard Byrd’s (Freemason) expedition (First Expidition) He was also the radio man on the first air flight over the South Pole.
Died 4 Jun 1967, from Heart Attack while attending a meeting (Washing DC) of the Council of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences of which he was treasurer. Aged 62.[3]
Note:
- Lunar crater Berkner was named in his honor[1,7]
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Berker Island in Antartica was also named for Berkner because of his work as a radio operator on the first Byrd expedition to Antarctica in 192
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Did not marry. No children.
[1] - FYI - Wiki - Lloyd V. Berkner
[2] - FYI - Wiki - Majestic 12
[3] - AAAS - Science Mag.org - Lloyd V. Berkner
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