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ALFRED A.H. KEIL
ALFRED A.H. KEIL
Pages 164-175
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. His doctoral thesis, addressing a shift in the spectrographic fine structure of the hydrogen atom, was submitted on August 16, 1939.
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photographs of the propagating shock waves in a pressurized chamber used to simulate a range of depths. This work preceded by two years the shock wave research being done by the United Sates Navy.
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In June 1945 a naval officer interviewed the group led by Alfred. He brought documents recovered from a German navy yard and asked the Keil group if they would, for pay, write a summary of each document, which the group did.
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He reorganized the work in UERD, creating test plans and analyzing test results onsite before passing the data up the assigned channels. Also, he had built a hyperbaric research tank modeled after the tank he used in Germany to study the pulsations and migrations of the shock waves caused by underwater explosions.
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By 1959 Alfred was the highest-ranking civil service employee in all of the Navy's shipyards. A Change of Venue In July 1959 Alfred was chosen to be the technical director of the Structural Mechanics Laboratory of the David Taylor Model Basin (DTMB)
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During his entire career of 19 years with the Navy he received performance reports from the naval officers to whom he reported in three categories: Quality of Work; Quantity of Work; and Adaptability. For every period and every officer he was rated "Outstanding." The four Navy officers to whom he had reported nominated him for the Gold Medal of the Society of Naval Engineers, the highest professional award in its field,
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Throughout the last half of the 20th century, Alfred Keil's research leadership and technical achievements were responsible for all major improvements in damage resistance, shock protection, and the survivability of US Navy ships and submarines. Massachusetts Institute of Technology During his years with the Navy, Alfred met Gordon S
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Alfred saw this new program as an opportunity to broaden research support. The MIT Sea Grant Program began in 1968 with a grant issued to Alfred Keil as principal investigator.
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Alfred insisted that each department head generate lists, separately for assistant, associate, and full professors, based on their contributions, broadly construed, in teaching, research, and public service. The sizes of the increases were expected to correspond to the lists, with individuals at or near the top of the rankings receiving the largest percentage increase while those at the bottom may not receive any increases.
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In his belief that an alternative to the present primary structure of eight departments in the school would provide greater opportunities for faculty collaboration and better alternatives for teaching and research, Alfred put together a proposal for a structure built on four organizational units: electrical, information and computer sciences; materials and chemical sciences; mechanical and thermal sciences; and engineering sciences related to civil systems and their engineering applications. In spite of many discussions and Alfred's efforts to address all questions, faculty support in 1975 was insufficient to depart from the historical departmental structure.
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Keil became increasingly concerned about what he called the "wiser use" of science and technology and the importance of considering their interrelationship and resulting impacts on broad societal issues such as quality of life, economic development, preservation of resources, and national security. Reflective of his deep commitment to MIT and education, he prepared a November 1984 document for MIT titled "Wiser Use of Science and Technology: The Theme for Providing Coherence, Unity and a Shared Purpose for MIT." He remained an active participant with MIT throughout the 1980s when health issues caused direct interactions with MIT to cease.
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