Background
Billings, Charles Edgar was born on June 15, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Edgar and Elizabeth (Sanborn) Billings.
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Charles Edgar Billings
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Student, Wesleyan University, 1947-1949; Doctor of Medicine New York University, 1953; Master of Science (Link Foundation fellow), Ohio State University, 1960.
Career
Instructor to professor departments preventive medicine and aviation School Medicine, Ohio State University, 1960-1973;
director division environmental health School Medicine, Ohio State University, 1970-1973;
clinical professor School Medicine, Ohio State University, 1973-1983;
professor emeritus, Ohio State University, since 1983;
research scientist industrial and systems engineering, since 1992. Medical officer National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 1973-1976. Chief Aviation Safety Research Office, 1976-1980, assistant chief for research Man-Vehicle Systems research division, 1980-1983, senior scientist, 1983-1991.
Chief scientist Ames Research Center, 1991-1992. Consultant Beckett Aviation Corporation, 1962-1973. Surgeon general United States Army, 1965-1977, Federal Aviation Administration, 1967-1970, 75, 83.
Member North Atlantic Treaty Organization-Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development Aerospace Medical Panel, 1980-1986. Associate advisor United States Air Force Science Advisory Board, 1978-1990.
Achievements
Membership
Served to major United States Air Force, 1955-1957. Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate), Royal Aero. Society, Aerospace Medical Association (president 1979-1980).
Member American Medical Association, International Academy Aviation and Space Medicine, American Whippet Club, Midland Whippet Club, Royal Air Force Club (Great Britain).
Connections
Married Lillian Elizabeth Wilson, April 16, 1955. 1 daughter, Lee Ellen Billings Kreinbihl.
