Edward Seymour Forman | |
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 Forman in 1932 | |
| Born | December 3, 1912 Gillespie, Illinois |
| Died | February 12, 1973 (aged 60) |
| Occupation | Rocket engineer |
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Edward Seymour Forman (December 3, 1912 – February 12, 1973) was an American engineer and inventor known for his pioneering work in early rocketry in the United States. Forman, along with his collaborators in Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), demonstrated the first practical jet-assisted take-off (JATO) of an aircraft in the United States.[1] Forman was among the GALCIT innovators that went on to found Aerojet General Corporation, the largest rocket technology manufacturer in the 1940s,[2][3]: 258 and the GALCIT Rocket Research Group itself became the precursor of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[4]
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