Kip Siegel
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Keeve M. (Kip) Siegel (1923-1975), U. S. Physicist.
Kip Siegel was a professor of Physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and the founder of KMS Industries and KMS Fusion. Preceding KMS Industries, in 1963, Kip Siegel founded Conductron Corporation, a high tech producer of electronic equipment which was absorbed by McDonald Douglas Corporation.
KMS Fusion was the first and only private sector company to pursue controlled thermonuclear fusion research through use of laser technology.
Born in New York City to David Porter Siegel and Rose Siegel (nee Jelin), Kip's Siegel's father was Chief of the Criminal Division of the US Attorney's office for the Southern Dsitrcit of New York and Kip Siegel's uncle, Isaac Siegel, was a member of Congress.
He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He joined Michigan's Upper Atmospheric Physics Group that had been set up that year as a research associate and became the Head of the Group the following year. He continued in this position until early 1952, by which time he had completed his Master of Science degree from RPI (1950), and got married (1951). Because of the importance of their work to what would become NORAD, it was renamed the Theory and Analysis Group in early 1952. Kip chaired the Organizing Committee of the URSI-sponsored Symposium on Electromagnetic Wave Theory held at the University of Michigan, 20-25 June 1955.
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