Robert A. Frosch
| Robert Alan Frosch | |
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| 5th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
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In office June 21, 1977 – January 20, 1981 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | James C. Fletcher |
| Succeeded by | James M. Beggs |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 22, 1928 New York City, New York |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Awards |
IRI Medal (1996) IEEE Founders Medal (2001) FREng(1989) |
Robert Alan Frosch FREng (born May 22, 1928), is an American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration.
Born in New York City, Frosch was educated in the public school system in The Bronx. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in theoretical physics at Columbia University.
Between September 1951 and August 1963, Frosch worked as a research scientist and director of research programs for Hudson Laboratories of Columbia University in Dobbs Ferry, New York, an organization under contract to the Office of Naval Research. Until 1953, he worked on problems in underwater sound, sonar, oceanography, marine geology, and marine geophysics. Frosch was first associate and then director of the laboratories, where he managed 300 employees, two ocean-going research vessels, and a $3.5 million annual budget for fundamental research and engineering. During this period he was also Technical Director of Project Artemis, a very large experimental active sonar system development.
In September 1963, Frosch went to Washington, DC to work with the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the U.S. Department of Defense, serving as Director for Nuclear Test Detection (Project VELA), and then as deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, sharing responsibility for managing a $270 million per year program of research and development. In July 1966 he became Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, responsible for all Navy programs of research, development, engineering, test and evaluation averaging $2.5 billion annually. From January 1973 to July 1975, Frosch served as Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Program. With the rank of Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, he was responsible for substantive global program activities of the United Nations system and other international activities related to environment matters.
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