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William J. Thaler was born on 4 December, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an American physicist and inventor who made significant contributions to the development of radar and other electronic systems. He was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and a consultant to the US Navy. Thaler was a graduate of the City College of New York and received his PhD in physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. Thaler was the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the IEEE Medal of Honor, and the IEEE Centennial Medal. He was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Thaler was married to his wife, Ruth, for over 60 years. He had two children, a son and a daughter. At the time of his death in 2006, Thaler was 80 years old. His net worth was estimated to be around $2 million.

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1960

In late 1960, Thaler joined the faculty of Georgetown University, expanded the Physics department and chaired the department from 1960 to 1976. From 1976 to 1979, he took a leave of absence to serve as chief scientist and director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, within the Executive Office of the President, in the Ford and Carter administrations. He returned to Georgetown University and retired in 1996.

In 1960, Thaler was awarded the Mendel Medal by Villanova University. This honor "is awarded to outstanding scientists who have done much by their painstaking work to advance the cause of science, and, by their lives and their standing before the world as scientists, have demonstrated that between true science and true religion there is no intrinsic conflict."

1958

In 1958, Thaler was in charge of the ONR section of Operation Argus, a secret series of tests conducted over the Atlantic Ocean that looked at the effect of high-altitude detonations of nuclear weapons on radar and radio transmissions.

1947

Thaler attended St. James Parochial School in Baltimore and Loyola High School in Towson, MD. He received his undergraduate degree from Loyola College of Baltimore in 1947 and earned his master's degree in science at The Catholic University of America. He received his doctorate in physics at Catholic University in 1951.

1925

William J. Thaler, Ph.D. (December 4, 1925 – June 5, 2005) was an American experimental physicist. Working for the Office of Naval Research (ONR) at the Naval Research Laboratory in the 1950s, Thaler developed an early warning system to detect the launching of ballistic missiles using high frequency radio waves bounced between the Earth's surface and the ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere.