Charles Stark Draper

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American engineer (1901-1987)

United States ScientistsLived 1901 to 1987 · aged 85

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Charles Stark "Doc" Draper was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, which was later spun out of MIT to become the non-profit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.

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1983Theodore von Kármán Award

1981National Aviation Hall of Fame

1981National Inventors Hall of Fame

1981Langley Gold Medal

1981Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

1977Allan D. Emil Memorial Award

1976International Space Hall of Fame

1973IEEE Lamme Medal

1971Rufus Oldenburger Medal

1971John Scott Award

1966Daniel Guggenheim Medal

1964National Medal of Science

1961Golden Plate Award

1960Howard N. Potts Medal

1959William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement

1959Magellanic Premium

1957Holley Medal

Fellow of the American Physical Society

IEEE Fellow

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

In their orbit 1

MotherMattie Martha Washington Stark

Connected to Charles 6

Vladimir K. ZworykinAlso won IEEE Lamme Medal

Rudolf E. KálmánAlso won Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

Jan DavisAlso won Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

William ThorntonAlso won Magellanic Premium

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.Also won Langley Gold Medal

Carl H. JuneAlso won John Scott Award

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