Henry Sampson

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Henry Thomas Sampson (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an American inventor. He is considered one of the many brilliant black inventors today.

He received a Bachelor's degree in science from Purdue University in 1956. He graduated with an MS degree in engineering from the University of California, in 1961. Sampson also received his MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in 1965, and his PhD in 1967.

Sampson was employed as a research chemical engineer at the U.S. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, in the area of high energy solid propellants and case bonding materials for solid rocket motors. Henry Sampson also served as the Director of Mission Development and Operations of the Space Test Program at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California.

His patents included a binder system for propellants and explosives and a case bonding system for cast composite propellants. Both inventions are related to solid rocket motors. He also received a patent, wich George H. Miley, for a gamma-electrical cell on July 6, 1971.