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California Institute of Technology.
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Mark Serrurier
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Mark was a graduate of Caltech and went on to work on designs for the Mountain. Palomar 200 inch (5 m) Hale telescope. The pioneering truss design he invented for that instrument"s massive tube structure (the "Serrurier truss") is still used today in large telescope designs.
During World World War II, Mark worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory testing jet aircraft engines.
In 1942, Rolf Sabersky worked in mechanical design on the Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel under Serrurier and Hap Richards. After the war in 1946 Mark took over as president of Moviola Company, his father Iwan’s company.
He only accepted after insisting that his late father"s name would also appear on the statue. The Oscar sat on Mark"s kitchen table until his death from Alzheimer"s disease on Valentine"s Day 1988.
Mark Serrurier has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in Motion Pictures.
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Dutch