Charles Stark Draper, Sc.D.

Physics

(1901 - 1987)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/56210.html
https://history.aip.org/phn/11506034.html
Draper, Charles Stark, The physical processes accompanying detonation in the internal combustion engine, Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1938.
[wikipedia 2013:] "Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) 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, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA."

Philip M. Morse	grad student	1938	MIT
("The physical processes accompanying detonation in the internal combustion engine")

Walter McKay	research assistant	1935	MIT
Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus	grad student	1932-1933	MIT (Meteorology Tree)
Walter Wrigley	grad student	1937-1941	MIT
Philip K. Chapman	grad student	1967	MIT

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