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Dean E. Wooldridge
Dean E. Wooldridge
Pages 348-353
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That initial contract led to several major divisions of Northrop Grumman that employ tens of thousands of engineers, who are still working on applications of advanced technology to address military needs. Dean Wooldridge was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, on May 30, 1913.
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However, after graduation from Caltech, their friendship remained personal, rather than professional. Wooldridge went to Bell Labs, where he became an acknowledged expert in electromagnetic theory, essential to the enormous surge in new technologies during World War II.
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These were all new challenges for the United States, and Ramo and Wooldridge decided to address them rather than devote their energies to commercial pursuits. Ramo joined the Hughes Aircraft Company in the spring of 1946, and Wooldridge followed that fall, to work on early contracts and continue to gather new ones.
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That contact led to an immediate trip, first to New York to complete the formation of the company and obtain initial financial backing from the Thompson Products Company, and later in the week to meetings in Washington where the Air Force selected the new firm to perform the analysis and then the management of a high-priority presidential program to develop ICBMs.
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That contract quickly grew, and many engineers wanted to join the new enterprise, so hiring was not a problem. For the rest of the decade, the company grew rapidly, until three major changes were made starting in 1958 -- Thompson took advantage of an opportunity to merge with the new company, which became TRW; Wooldridge became president of TRW; and the company spun off the resources doing advanced planning for the Air Force into a new company, Aerospace Corporation.
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