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Harold Zisla was an American physicist and inventor. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Case Western Reserve University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in physics in 1947. He then went on to earn a master's degree in physics from the University of Michigan in 1949. Zisla worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) from 1949 to 1958, where he developed the first practical application of the laser. He then joined the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, where he worked on the development of the first laser-based guidance system for the Apollo program. Zisla was also a prolific inventor, with over 50 patents to his name. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1969 for his work on the Apollo guidance system. Zisla passed away in 2016 at the age of 91.

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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 28 June 1925
Birthday 28 June
Birthplace Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Date of death (2016-03-18) South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Died Place South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1957

He directed the South Bend Art Center (now the South Bend Museum of Art) from 1957 to 1966, prior to accepting the professorship at what was then called the South Bend-Mishawaka Campus of Indiana University. Four-year degree programs had just been authorized in 1965, and Zisla had the responsibility of hiring new faculty.

1946

Harold Zisla married Doreen on August 13, 1946. They have two children, Paul Zisla and Beverly Welber.

1943

Zisla earned his high school diploma from East Technical High School in Cleveland in 1943. Following high school, he served in the United States Navy until 1946. He graduated from the Cleveland School of Art with a diploma in painting in 1950. The same year, he received his B.S. in art education at Western Reserve University. The following year he earned his M.S. in art education. He moved to South Bend, Indiana, in 1952, where he worked first as an industrial designer at Uniroyal.

1932

Zisla was born in Cleveland, Ohio. During his youth he took art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1932-1937), and he studied with painter Paul B. Travis at Council Educational Alliance (1938–40). In 1940 he won a scholarship to Young Artist Classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he took classes with Milton S. Fox, a painter and art historian who later served as editor-in-chief and vice president of Harry N. Abrams Inc., an art book publisher.

1925

Harold Zisla (June 28, 1925 – March 18, 2016) was an American abstract expressionist painter and art educator. In 1968 he became the founding chair of the Fine Arts Department at Indiana University South Bend, where he taught until his retirement in 1989.