Ernst Stuhlinger
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Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger is an American atomic, electrical and rocket scientist born in Niederrimbach, Germany, on December 19, 1913. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at age 23, and in 1939 went to work for the German Atomic Energy Program. In 1943, he joined Dr. Wernher von Braun's team at the German village of Peenemuende, where he worked in the field of guidance systems. He was one of 126 scientists who immigrated to the United States with Dr. von Braun after World War II as part of Operation Paperclip. Stuhlinger was director of the space science lab at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, from 1960 to 1968, and then its associate director for science from 1968 to 1975, when he retired and became an adjunct professor and senior research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In 1955, he became a naturalized United States citizen.
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- Portree, David S. (February 2001). "Humans to Mars: Fifty years of mission planning" (pdf). Monographs in Aerospace History Series 21.
- Belew, Leland F. and Stuhlinger, Ernst (August 6, 2004). Skylab: A Guidebook. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Stuhlinger, Ernst (2001). "Enabling Technology for Space Transportation". The Century of Space Science 1: 73-74.
- NASA Historical Reference Collection. Ernst Stuhlinger biographical file. NASA History Office.
