Background
Huston, Norman Earl was born on January 24, 1919 in Jefferson, Iowa, United States. Son of Sherburn Sherwood and Helen Isadore (Briggs) Huston.
Huston, Norman Earl was born on January 24, 1919 in Jefferson, Iowa, United States. Son of Sherburn Sherwood and Helen Isadore (Briggs) Huston.
Student, Los Angeles City College, 1938-1940; Bachelor of Arts, University of California at Berkeley, 1943; Doctor of Philosophy, University Southern California, 1952.
Physicist, University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, 1943-1944;
research engineer, director department, Atomics International division North America Aviation Company, Los Angeles, 1950-1965;
senior science adviser, assistant to vice president, Autonetics division, Anaheim, California, 1966;
professor nuclear engineering, director, Instrumentation Systems Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1966-1984;
director, Advisory Center for Medical Technology and Systems, 1972-1978;
retired, 1984;
professor emeritus nuclear engineering, Advisory Center for Medical Technology and Systems, since 1984;
also director, Ocean Engineering laboratories, 1967-1970;
also director, University of Wisconsin -National Aeronautics and Space Administration biomedical Application Team, 1974-1977. Member subcommittee of commission on interaction of engineering in biology and medicine National Academy Engineering. Reviewer, consultant National Science Foundation, Agency for International Development, project leader mission to Cairo, Management Laboratory Instruction, 1976.
Project leader Egypt Science andTech. Project, National Research Center for Agency for International Development and National Science Foundation, Cairo, 1977. UNexpert on mission Singapore Institute Standards and Industrial Research, 1972.
Member National Science Foundation task force on instrumentation requirements to National Research Centre, Egypt, 1974, National Science Foundation team mission to Cairo, Rome, workshops science intruments, 1975. Consultant Indonesian Ministry Edition and Culture, 1983.
Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1947. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (council member), Instrument Society of America (vice president education and research 1971-1972, vice president publications 1974-1976, secretary 1977-1978, president 1978-1979), Institute Measurement and Control. Member American Nuclear Society, American Society Engineering Education, American Physical Society, National Management Association (vice president Newspaper Association of America Valley chapter, treasurer 1958-1959), Western Boys Baseball Association (president Woodland Hills 1959), Sigma Xi, Alpha Delta Sigma, Alpha Tau Omega.
Clubs: Rotary (Madison).
Married Mary-Belle Felton, June 27, 1943. Children— Norman Earl, Anne Marie Huston Sigerstad, Susan Deane.