Oct 4 1992
From The Space Library
John L. Sloop, 76, an electrical engineer who was a retired official of NASA, died in Washington, DC. Mr. Sloop retired in 1972 as Assistant Associate Administrator for Advanced Research and Propulsion after a 30-year career with NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. (W Post, Oct 7/92)
Zoltan L. Bay, a research physicist who developed the first radar to study celestial bodies, died of emphysema at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Born in Hungary, he taught physics at Szeged University in the 1930s and was research professor at George Washington University before joining the National Bureau of Standards in 1955. (W Post, Oct 11/92; C Trib, Oct 11/92)
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