Background

Michelson, Irving was born on January 4, 1922 in Jersey City. Son of Eli J. and Sadie H. (Ginsberg) Michelson.

Education

Student, George Washington University, 1946. Bachelor of Science, Georgia School Technology, 1943. Postgraduate, Brown University, 1944.

Master of Science, California Institute of Technology, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautical and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1951.

Career

Lecturer University California, Los Angeles, 1951-1954. Research scientist ODIN Associates, Pasadena, California, 1954-1957. Professor aeronautical engineering, head department Pennsylvania State University, 1957-1960.

Professor aerospace engineering Illinois Institute of Technology, from 1960. Consultant government, industry. Faculté des Sciences de Nancy (France), since 1961.

Achievements

• Irving Michelson has been listed as a noteworthy Aerospace engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member advisory board Committee Pan American Policy, since 1970. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Member American Astronomical Society, American Institute Aeronautics an Astronautics (chairman education committee 1959-1961), American Society Engineering Education, American Association of University Professors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society New South Wales, Chicago Press Club, Sigma Xi, Kappa Kappa Psi.

Connections

Married Larisa Rudaya. Children: Ann Michelson Shoham, Louis, Linda Michelson Zelman, Julia Michelson Waldman, Elise Michelson Levin, Eliot, Jack.

Father:

Eli J. Michelson

Mother:

Sadie H. (Ginsberg) Michelson

Spouse:

Larisa Rudaya

child:

Linda Michelson Zelman Michelson

child:

Elise Michelson Levin Michelson

child:

Jack Michelson

child:

Eliot Michelson

child:

Julia Michelson Waldman Michelson

child:

Ann Michelson Shoham Michelson

child:

Louis Michelson