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Michael Minovitch
American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1935 to 2022 · aged 87
Michael Andrew Minovitch was an American mathematician who developed gravity assist technique when he was a UCLA graduate student and working summers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He claimed that he invented the technique, even though multiple publications preceded his own.
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He later sued several people, including Richard Battin who published a paper on gravity assists in 1958, for stealing his ideas, but lost.
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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1935 to 2022 · aged 87
