1. Hans Michael Mark was a German-born American government official who served as Secretary of the Air Force and as a Deputy Administrator of NASA.
23 Facts About Hans Mark
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Hans Mark was an expert and consultant in aerospace design and national defense policy.
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Hans Mark was born in the city of Mannheim, Baden, Germany.
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Hans Mark lived in Vienna for a time before escaping the Nazi Anschluss via Switzerland.
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About a year later the family moved to the United States, settling in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York after the elder Hans Mark accepted a professorship at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
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Hans Mark went on to receive a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951.
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Hans Mark returned to UC Berkeley in 1955 and remained there until 1958 as a research physicist at the University's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California.
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Hans Mark then returned to MIT as an assistant professor of physics.
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Hans Mark remained there until 1964, when he became chairman of the university's Department of Nuclear Engineering and administrator of the Berkeley Research Reactor.
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Hans Mark taught undergraduate and graduate courses in physics, engineering and management at Boston University, the University of California, Davis and Stanford University.
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Hans Mark subsequently served as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1977 until July 1979, when he was promoted to Secretary of the Air Force.
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Hans Mark remained at this position until 1981, when he was appointed Deputy Administrator of NASA by President Reagan, a position he served in from July 10,1981 to September 1,1984.
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Hans Mark moved on to become a senior professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Hans Mark retired from the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin on July 1,2014.
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Hans Mark was voted by the Regents of the University as a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics.
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Hans Mark was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the nation's highest honor for engineering professionals.
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Hans Mark was an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Hans Mark received the 1999 Joe J King Engineering Achievement Award and the 1999 George E Haddaway Medal for Achievement in Aviation.
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Dr Hans Mark was honored for his contributions to the US military space program at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Astronautical Society.
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Hans Mark received the 2006 Military Astronautics Award on November 14,2006 at the society's annual meeting in Pasadena, California.
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Hans Mark died from progressive dementia in Austin, Texas, on December 18,2021, at the age of 92.
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Hans Mark is survived by his daughter, Jane Mark, his son Rufus Mark, his grandchildren, Rob and Rixana Jopson, and Phillip, Nick, and Juliette Mark, and his great-granddaughter Julianna Mark.
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Dr Hans Mark authored or edited eight books and published more than 180 technical reports.