Ridenour Credit - NASA

Personal: Male. Born in USA.

Louis N. Ridenour received his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1936, and began work at Princeton University. In 1938 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, were he remained until 1947. He then went to the University of Illinois, but left there in 1951 to become vice president of the International Telemeter Corp. He also served in several positions with scientific organizations in the Federal Government, most significantly as chief scientist with the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s.

• Launius, Roger D, NASA Chief Historian, NASA History Office Home Page, . Accessed at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/index.html.