Background
James H. Wakelin, Junior. was born on May 6, 1911 in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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Dartmouth College; Yale University. University of Cambridge.
Career
After graduating from high school in 1928, Wakelin received an Bachelor of Arts in physics from Dartmouth College in 1932. A Bachelor of Arts in natural sciences from Cambridge University in 1934. An Master of Arts, also from Cambridge, in 1939.
And a doctorate in physics from Yale University in 1940.
During 1939-1943, he was a senior physicist in the physical research department of the Benjamin Franklin Goodrich Company in Akron, Ohio. Wakelin"s work at Benjamin Franklin Goodrich focused on the structure and physical properties of natural and synthetic rubber, and with X-ray diffraction and electron microscope studies of high polymers.
In 1943, Wakelin became an ordnance staff officer to the Coordinator of Research and Development of the United States Department of the Navy in Washington, Doctorate. C. In 1945, he joined the United States Navy" General’ s Office of Research and Inventions as head of the Chemistry, Mathematics, and Mechanics and Materials Sections of the Planning Division. In that role, he was active in the organization of the Office of Naval Research in 1946.
He also participated in Project SQUID at this time, under contract to Princeton University.
In 1948, he left European Research Area to become associate director of Princeton"s Textile Research Institute, and would go on to serve as the institute"s director from 1951 to 1954. In 1954, Wakelin formed a consulting firm, in which capacity he would go on to provide advice to General Electric"s Lamp Division. The Stanford Research Institute.
The American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation.
Justice of the Peace Stevens & Company; the Frenchtown Porcelain Company And the Star Porcelain Company
Also in 1954, Wakelin was one of the founders of the Chesapeake Instrument Corporation, set up to conduct research and development for the United States Navy in the field of underwater acoustics. On leaving the government, Wakelin became president of Research Analysis Corporation and served on the Board of Trustees of National Geographic Magazine.
In 1969, Wakelin returned to government service when President Richard Nixon appointed him head of the president"s task force on oceanography.
He then served for two years as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology. Wakelin died of prostate cancer at his home in Washington, Doctorate. C. on December 21, 1990.
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1990 (aged 79)