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William E. Brunk

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Oral history interview transcript for William E. Brunk on 9 August 1983, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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Oral history interview transcript for William E. Brunk on 21 July 1983, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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Brunk returned to the Case Institute in 1963 to earn his Ph.D. in astronomy, before accepting the position of staff scientist for the
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at NASA headquarters (1965-1982), where he played an important role in the construction of the 2.6-m reflector at the
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on November 24, 1928. He was educated at high school in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the local
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as an aerospace research engineer, working there from 1958 to 1964.
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Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious Service to Planetary Science
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in 1948, gaining a B.S. in 1952 and an M.S. in Astronomy in 1954.
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Brunk worked as a research scientist and aeronaut in the
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NASA
Cleveland, Ohio
Case Institute of Technology
Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
Lewis Research Center
Voyager mission
Planetary Astronomy
McDonald Observatory
Infrared Telescope Facility
Mauna Kea
Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious Service to Planetary Science
2499 Brunk
"Brunk, William Edward, 1928-"
Proceedings of the General Convention
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
doi
10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_2500
ISBN
978-3-540-00238-3
"Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious Service to Planetary Science"
American Astronomical Society
Oral history interview transcript for William E. Brunk on 21 July 1983, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Oral history interview transcript for William E. Brunk on 9 August 1983, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Categories
1928 births
Living people
Scientists from Cleveland
20th-century American astronomers
Case Western Reserve University alumni

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