Paul Ernest Klopsteg (May 30, 1889 – April 28, 1991) was an American

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. The asteroid 3520 Klopsteg was named after him and the yearly

Klopsteg Memorial Award The Klopsteg Memorial Award is an annual prize given to a notable physicist in memory of Paul E. Klopsteg. Established in 1990, it is awarded by the American Association of Physics Teachers. The Klopsteg Memorial Award recipient is asked to make a ...

was founded in his memory. He performed ballistics research during

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at the US Army's Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. He applied his knowledge of ballistics to the study of archery. He was director of research at

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Technical Institution. From 1951 through 1958 he was an associate director of the

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and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1958 through 1959. In 1979, aged 90, he was the first and so far (as of February 2016) only person to receive an ''Extraordinary''

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Award.

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External links

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Archery publications

Paul E Klopsteg. Turkish Archery and the Composite Bow. Second edition, revised, 1947, published by the author, 2424 Lincolnwood Drive, Evanston, Illinois Hickman, C. N.; Nagler, Forrest; Klopsteg, Paul E. (1947), Archery: The Technical Side. A compilation of scientific and technical articles on theory, construction, use and performance of bows and arrows, reprinted from journals of science and of archery, National Field Archery Association. 1889 births 1991 deaths 20th-century American physicists American centenarians Men centenarians {{US-physicist-stub