Category talk:1994 deaths

July 2008
Richard J.Anderle,Ph.D should be included in this list. He was a Geodesic Mathematician for the Navy and was responsible for developing Geodesic Satellites (ie Global positioning). See following webpages and journal articles

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994EOSTr..75..339. http://www.springerlink.com/content/q11528150x67757u/

The following quote can be found on the website "NOAA History - Geodesic Survey 1940-1990 (see http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/geod2.html)

"Richard J. Anderle (Naval Surface Weapons Center) spent a large part of his career developing equipment to employ satellites for positioning purposes. First, the Doppler system which provided positions to an accuracy of ± 1-meter in each component and second, GPS where in the relative mode, accuracies of 0.1 ppm are possible. No one, as yet, has been identified as the father of GPS and its not suggested that Anderle was, however he was a member of the immediate family" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.196.110.233 (talk) 03:16, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

He was also a winner of the Johannas Kepler Award:

http://www.ion.org/awards/kepler.cfm

He received an Honorary Degree from Ohio State University in 1981

http://senate.osu.edu/committees/Honorary_Degrees/HDRecipients.html

He also developed the algorithm to track Sputnick I and II and sent several experiments up on the space shuttles.

https://drum.umd.edu/dspace/bitstream/1903/3572/1/umi-umd-3412.pdf

Regards, Gloria T. Anderle