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Encyclopedia: William Hayward Pickering

William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE (24 December 1910 — 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. His group launched Explorer I on a Jupiter-C rocket from Cape Canaveral on 31 January 1958 less than four months after the Russians had launched Sputnik (much to the surprise of the Americans). Explorer III discovered the radiation field round the earth that is now known as the Van Allen radiation belt. Explorer 1 orbited for 10 years and was the forerunner of a number of successful JPL earth and deep-space satellites. William Hayward Pickering is not to be confused with William Henry Pickering, an astronomer from an earlier era.

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Pickering

people with the name Pickering : William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004), former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory William Henry Pickering (1858-1938), astronomer Edward Charles Pickering... Pickering is a small town in North Yorkshire, England, on the borders of the North York Moors...

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Japan Prize

F. Knipling 1994 William Hayward Pickering and Arvid Carlsson 1993 Frank Press and Kary B. Mullis... 1990 Marvin Minsky, William Jason Morgan, Dan Peter Mckenzie, and Xavier Le Pichon 1989 Frank Sherwood...

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