Lloyd Viel Berkner was an American physicist and engineer.
11 Facts About Lloyd Berkner
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Lloyd Berkner was one of the inventors of the measuring device that since has become standard at ionospheric stations because it measures the height and electron density of the ionosphere.
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The data obtained in the worldwide net of such instruments were important for the developing theory of short wave radio propagation to which Berkner himself gave important contributions.
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Lloyd Berkner was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1948.
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Lloyd Berkner was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1956.
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Lloyd Berkner was a member of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee in 1958 while he was president of Associated Universities Inc.
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Lloyd Berkner worked with the CIA in some capacity as well, but any activities are wholly classified as of 2015.
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Lloyd Berkner worked with Dallas community leaders to establish the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest.
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Lloyd Berkner wrote more than 100 papers and several books, including Rockets and Satellites, Science in Space, and The Scientific Age.
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In 1961, Lloyd Berkner was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
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Lloyd Berkner was married to Lillian Fulks Lloyd Berkner and had two children.