Everything about Lloyd Berkner totally explained
Lloyd Viel Berkner (born
February 1,
1905, in Milwaukee, died
June 4,
1967, in Washington, D.C.) was an American
physicist and
engineer. He is notable as the first person to measure the height and density of the
ionosphere. This permitted the first complete theory of
short wave radio propagation.
Later he investigated the development of the
Earth's atmosphere. Since he needed data from the whole world, he proposed the
International Geophysical Year in 1950. At that time, the IGY was the largest cooperative study of the Earth ever undertaken.
The
IGY was carried out by the International Council of Scientific Unions while he was president in 1957-59. He was also a member of the
President's Scientific Advisory Committee in 1958 while he was president of Associated Universities Inc.
In 1963, Berkner, with L.C. Marshall, advanced a theory to describe the way in which the atmospheres of the solar system's inner planets had evolved.
Beginning in 1926, as a naval officer, Berkner assisted in the development of radar and navigation systems, naval aircraft electronics engineering, and studies that led to the construction of the
Distant Early Warning system, a chain of radar stations designed to give the United States advance warning in the event of a missile attack across the North Pole.
He wrote more than 100 papers and several books, including
Rockets and Satellites (1958),
Science in Space (1961), and
The Scientific Age (1964).
Lloyd V. Berkner High School in
Richardson, Texas was named for him in 1969.
Berkner was an alleged member of the
Majestic 12 committee.
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