Albert Hill

Background

Doctor Hill was born in Saint Louis on January

Education

He received the Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the University of Rochester in 1937.

Career

He died in 1996. In 1930 he received the Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Washington University in Saint Louis and, after serving two years with Bell Telephone Laboratories, an Mississippi in physics (1934). Hill headed the Radio Frequency Group in the Transmitter Components division and by the end of the war was chief of the 800-person division. Lincoln Laboratory was formed in 1951 at the request of the government, and Doctor Hill became its second director, leading the development of the computerized SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) air defense system and the DEW line of radar sets stretching from northern Alaska to Greenland.

He helped establish in 1955 the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe) Technical Center in The Hague and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Communications Lincolnshire, extending from northern Norway to eastern Turkey.

In 1956, Doctor Hill went to Washington to serve as director for the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group and vice president and director of research for the Institute for Defense Analyses. He returned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 and resumed teaching physics.

In 1965, he also became a lecturer in the Department of Political Science. In 1970, he was appointed to the new position of vice president for research, supervising research administration on campus and the special laboratories (Lincoln Laboratory and the Instrumentation Laboratory).

In May 1970, Massachusetts Institute of Technology formally divested itself of the Instrumentation Laboratory, which under the direction of Charles Stark Draper had developed the gyroscope and the inertial guidance system and had guided Apollo XI to the moon in July 1969.

Draper Laboratory remained a division of Massachusetts Institute of Technology for three years and became independent in 1973. In 1984, the Draper Laboratory dedicated the Albert G. Hill Building at One Hampshire Street in Cambridge.

Achievements

• Doctor Hill, still vice president of research, became the chairman of the independent board of directors of the laboratory, renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in honor of its founder.

Membership

He was an instructor in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1937 to 1941, when he became a staff member of the Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was developing radar for use in World World War World War II

Connections

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