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Bill Pickering

New Zealand engineer
William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE was a New Zealand-born aerospace engineer who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. Wikipedia
Born: December 24, 1910, Wellington, New Zealand
Died: March 15, 2004 (age 93 years), La Cañada Flintridge, CA
Known for: Space aeronautics pioneering
Thesis: A Geiger Counter Study of the Cosmic Radiations (1936)