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Otto Glasser (biophysicist)
Otto John Glasser (2 October 1918 – 26 February 1996) was a Lieutenant General (United States), lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and pioneering weapons scientist who played an important part in the development of the SM-65 Atlas, Atlas and Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. Early career and education Otto John Glasser was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on 2 October 1918, the son of Leo and Lillian Cave Glasser. He had two brothers, Leo and Robert, and two sisters, Ruth and Lois. He graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in engineering in May 1940, and was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps. World War II Glasser was called to active duty in February 1941, and served in the United States Army Signal Corps installing the then top secret, newly developed radar technology as an early attack warning system in the Caribbean during World War II. He married Norma Wilhelmina Mayo on 9 September 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre ( or ) is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city, after Scranton, Pennsylvania, Scranton, in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 563,631 as of the 2010 United States census, 2010 census and is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after the Delaware Valley, Greater Pittsburgh, and the Lehigh Valley with an urban population of 401,884. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is the cultural and economic center of a region called Northeastern Pennsylvania, which is home to over 1.3 million residents. Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding Wyoming Valley are framed by the Pocono Mountains to the east, the Endless Mountains to the north and west, and the Lehigh Valley to the south. The Susqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
