Arthur Kantrowitz

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Arthur R. Kantrowitz (born 1913) is an American engineer.

Kantrowitz earned his B.S., M.A., and, in 1947, his Ph.D. degrees in physics from Columbia University. During his studies at Columbia, Kantrowitz started working as a physicist, in 1936, for the NACA, a work he would keep for ten years. He went on to teach at Cornell University for the next ten years, meanwhile he founded the Avco-Everett Research Lab in Everett, Massachusetts, in 1955. Since he was the company's founder, he was also its director, senior executive officer, and chairman until 1978 when he took on a professorship at Dartmouth College. From 1956 to 1978 he also served as a vice president and director of Avco Corporation.

Kantrowitz is a fellow of the, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronautical Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (an honorary fellow), American Physical Society, National Academy of Engineering (member), National Academy of Sciences (member).

Kantrowitz holds 21 patents, has authored or coauthored more than 200 scientific and professional papers and articles.

Kantrowitz also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Foresight Institute, an organization devoted to preparing for nanotechnology.