Background
Shor, Samuel Wendell Williston was born on June 25, 1920 in New York City. Son of George Gershon and Dorothy (Williston) Shor.
Shor, Samuel Wendell Williston was born on June 25, 1920 in New York City. Son of George Gershon and Dorothy (Williston) Shor.
Student, Harvard University, 1937-1939; Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy, 1942; Naval Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949; Master of Science in Mathematics, New York University, 1963.
Commissioned ensign, United States Navy, 1942; advanced through grades to captain, United States Navy, 1962; served in cruisers, Chicago, St. Louis, and Quincy, Pacific and Atlantic, 1942-1946; assigned, San Francisco Naval Shipyard, 1949-1952; assigned, naval reactors branch Atomic Energy Commission, 1952-1953; Atomic Energy Commission representative for initial test of submarine nuclear propulsion in, United States Ship Nautilus and United States Ship Seawolf, 1953-1957; Atomic Energy Commission representative for startup testing of, Shippingport Atomic Power Station, 1957-1958; design superintendent, production engineering officer, New York Naval Shipyard, 1958-1963; director sonar systems office, Naval Ship Systems Command, 1963-1967; executive director plans, Naval Ship Systems Command, 1967-1969; deputy commander for engineering, Naval Ship Systems Command, 1969-1971; project manager electronic warfare, Naval Electronic Systems Commissioned, 1971-1973; with, Bechtel Power Corporation, San Francisco, since 1973.
Member Society Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society Naval Engineers, American Mathematics Society, American Physical Society, Sigma Xi.
Married Joan Bopp, June 21, 1958. Children: Peter Williston, Molly Hathaway.