Karl August Sense

Background

Sense, Karl August was born on March 6, 1917 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Son of Carl Richard and Charlotte Irma (Neuenfeldt) Sense. came to the United States, 1929.

Education

Bachelor, State University of New York, Albany, 1939; Master of Science, University of Minnesota, 1951.

Career

Assistant division consultant, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio., 1951-1958; senior physicist, Atomics International (Rockwell), Canoga Park, California, 1958-1961; research scientist, Astropower subsidiary Douglas Aircraft, Newport Beach, California, 1961-1964; project manager, staff engineer, TRW Systems Group, Redondo Beach, California, 1964-1969; private practice consultant, Garden Grove, California, 1969-1980; engineering specialist satellite systems division, Rockwell International, Seal Beach, California, 1981-1984; retired, Rockwell International, Seal Beach, California, 1984; lecturer in physics, California State University, Long Beach, 1986.

Achievements

• Karl August Sense has been listed as a noteworthy physicist, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Commander American Legion Post # 286, Garden Grove, 1977. President Worthington (Ohio) Lutheran Church, 1957. Co-chairman, board directors Lutheran High School Association of Orange County, California, 1968.

Second lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945. Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate, Membership award 1991). Member American Physical Society (senior ).

Interests

• Avocations: eschatology, music.

Connections

Married Rita Evelyn Sharp, June 5, 1948 (divorced January 1971). Children: Karl D., Nancy C., Kurt A., Janet E., Eric M.

Father:

Carl Richard Sense

Mother:

Charlotte Irma (Neuenfeldt) Sense

Spouse:

Rita Evelyn Sharp

child:

Janet E. Sense

child:

Nancy C. Sense

child:

Kurt A. Sense

child:

Karl D. Sense

child:

Eric M. Sense