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George Edward Alcron Jr.

Place of Birth:

General Facts

Indianapolis, Indiana

Family

Family

Parents: Arletta Dixon Alcorn and George Edward Alcorn

Siblings: Charles Edward Alcorn

Spouse: Dorothy Green (2nd), Marie DaVillier (1st)

Children: One son (Name Unknown)

Occupation

Occupations:

Physicist, engineer, inventor, and professor.

Hobbies

Hobbies

  • Sports:
  • Recived varsity letters in baseball
  • Recived varsity letters in football

  • Interest:
  • Physics
  • Engeineering
  • Computational Analytics

TIMELINE

Timeline

1999

1969

1958

Alcorn married his wife Marie DaVillier

Alcorn was honored with an award from Government Executive magazine for developing the Airborne LIDAR Topographic Mapping System (ALTMS) in partnership with the Houston Advanced Research Center.

Graduated Hightschool with an excellent academic record. He entered Occidental College in Los Angeles, California on an academic scholarship.

1978

Left IMB to join NASA

1963- Summer

At North American Rockwell assigned to perform computer analysis on the orbital mechanics and launch trajectories for rockets and missiles.

1963

Completed his Masters in Nuclear Physics From Howard University in 9 months. During the summer he worked as a research engineer for the Space Division of North American Rockwell.

1979

Alcorn and his wife Marie DaVillier had their first child, a son.

1984

1967

2015

March 22, 1940

Obtained his PhD in atomic and molecular physics from Howard University

Invented the X-ray spectrometer, which earned him the NASA–Goddard Space Flight Center award for Inventor of the Year

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arletta Dixon Alcorn and George Edward Alcorn

1962

Alcorn was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his invention of the X-ray spectrometer.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics with honors, while playing varisty in basball and football

1965-1966 Summer

Alcron recived a grant from NASA to support his research on negative ion formations.

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