Event class: research, war, became, director, office, intelligence, nuclear, joined, department, work

Events with high posterior probability

Walter Wanger	In April 1918 Wanger was transferred to the Committee on Public Information, and joined an effort to combat anti-war or pro-German sentiment in Allied Italy.
Claude Hilton Keith	His work as Assistant Director of Armament Research and Development with responsibility for armament led to the establishment of the'' Air Fighting Committee'' in 1934.
Bernard Lovell	He worked in the cosmic ray research team at the University of Manchester until the outbreak of World War II, during which he worked for the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) developing radar systems to be installed in aircraft, among them H2S, for which he received an OBE in 1946.
Hon Sui Sen	Subsequently as Finance Minister, he established the Bases Economic Conversion Department to oversee the conversion and commercialization of lands and facilities that had been left behind by the British military following their withdrawal in 1968.
Richard Gambier-Parry	However, a year later, in August 1943, the team was disbanded when the Director of Naval Intelligence decided that he did not need the operation to go into commission.
Marion Elizabeth (Walsh) de Chastelain	In 1943, two years after the entry of the USA into the war following Pearl Harbor, and the consequent closure of Axis embassies in Washington, her work for Stephenson was rendered less important and arrangements were made for her to take up a position with the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS -- later MI6) in England.
Munir Ahmad Khan	He is credited along with Zulfikar Bhutto (former Prime minister), on the technical side as the'' father of the Pakistan's atomic bomb project'', Since 1958, Khan served as the technical adviser to the newly created PAEC, and used his position in the International Atomic Energy Agency for lobbying for country's industrial nuclear power development.
Hugh Macdonald Sinclair	At the beginning of the war in 1939, Hugh joined a Ministry of Supply team under Professor Rudolph Peters in the Department of Biochemistry, seeking countermeasures to poison gas, but the nutritional status of the population and how to assess it began to occupy Hugh more and more.
Wilber Brotherton Huston	In November 1944 the Army transferred Huston to the Civilian Reserve Corps at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where he worked as an aeronautical research scientist for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Dennis Puleston	In 1942 Puleston was asked by the US Government to join the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
C. C. Too	As a result of his successful efforts at psychological warfare, Too was promoted to Head of the Psychological Warfare Section, a post he would hold until his retirement in 1983.
John Allyne Gade	In 1929, while working for White & Weld, Gade proposed the creation of an American Central Intelligence Agency modeled on British intelligence.
Robert Furman	In August 1943 Furman was put in charge of an intelligence effort formed by Groves in response to concerns of the atomic bomb project scientists about the German nuclear effort.
Paul Scherrer	In addition, he also took part in establishing CERN near Geneva in 1954, and in setting up Reaktor AG to study the construction and operation of nuclear fission facilities one year later, in Würenlingen.
David S. Wollan	In 1974, he went to the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) as a physical science officer, and served on U. S. delegations to SALT II and START negotiations.
Bill Weisband	After joining the U. S. Army's Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) in 1942, he performed signals intelligence and communications security duties in North Africa and Italy, where he made some important friends before returning to the'' Russian Section'' at Arlington Hall, where SIS had established its headquarters in June 1942.
Charles Key	On the outbreak of war in 1939, Key left teaching to become a civil defence worker in London and deputy controller of civil defence in Poplar.
Salih Avci	He was invited to various combat training courses and in 1992 he was invited to demonstrate his techniques before the Director of the special forces of NRW, who was impressed by the highly effective skills of the martial artist.
Harry Ricardo	In 1917 his old mentor, Bertram Hopkinson, who was now Technical Director at the Air Ministry, invited him to join the new engine research facility at the Department of Military Aeronautics, later to become the RAE.
Roy G. Fitzgerald	His interest in flying led him, in 1927, to urge that the Air Force be reorganized as an independent department of the national defense.''
Arthur C. Cope	In 1941, Cope moved to Columbia University where he worked on projects associated with the war effect including chemical warfare agents, antimalarial drugs, and treatments for mustard gas poisoning.
Vladimir Vetrov	He lived in France for five years, beginning in 1965 when posted there as a Line X officer working for the KGB's' Directorate T', which specialized in obtaining advanced information about science and technology from western countries.
Ken Alibek	His first assignment (1975) was to the Eastern European Branch of the Institute of Applied Biochemistry (IAB) near Omutninsk, a combined pesticide production facility and reserve biological weapons production plant intended for activation in a time of war.
Harry Ricardo	While his work guaranteed England a supply of fuels of ever-increasing power during the 1930s, it also helped Germany to develop synthetic high-octane aviation fuel, for example for the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 which inflicted heavy losses among the RAF's Supermarine Spitfire s in 1942.
Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton	Immediately war was declared, Roxbee was transferred back to Farnborough as Superintendent of Scientific Research and was then moved to the new Ministry of Aircraft Production in May 1940, as Deputy Director of Scientific Research.
David Bohm	He later performed theoretical calculations for the Calutron s at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, used to electromagnetically enrich uranium for use in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Henry A. Schade	Schade remained as Director of the Naval Research Laboratory until his retirement from the Navy Department on February 1, 1949.
Abraham Esau	Even after Esau left his position as plenipotentiary for nuclear physics and head of the physics section at the RFR at the end of 1942, he continued to have significant authority and influence as president of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, as is attested to by the fact that he was able to continue research efforts for the Urainverein under the highest priority level for urgent development projects (Dringlichkeitsentwicklung, DE).
Stuart H. Ingersoll	During his presidency, he oversaw the changeover of the college's wargaming from manual to computer ized processes, and on 13 November 1958, the Naval Electronic Warfare Simulator (NEWS) was commissioned in Sims Hall.
William Stephen Raikes Hodson	The initial assistance he gave in organising the newly formed Corps of Guides in December 1846 had been one of Sir Henry Lawrence's projects in which Hodson excelled.
Karl Eduard Heusner	In 1882 Heusner was Chief (Dezernent) of Section A1 (Military Utilization of Ships/Milit ärische Verwendung der Schiffe) of the Admiralty's Military Department (Militärische Abteilung), which was headed by Eduard von Knorr.
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench	Following the war (WWI), Conrad was summoned to Whitehall in December 1918 to meet then Colonel Stewart Menzies, who recruited Conrad into MI6.
Louis A. Kaiser	In 1904, he was transferred again to the Bureau of Equipment.
A. P. Elkin	Until his retirement in 1956, he effectively dominated Australian anthropology, advised governments, trained administrators sent to Papua New Guinea, while also continuing his field research.
John Kingsman Beling	He retired from active duty in 1973, at which time he went to work as director of the Net Technical Assessment Office, responsible for comparing and contrasting U. S. and Soviet weapons systems for the Secretary of Defense.
Gaik Ovakimian	In 1933 he was sent to the United States as deputy head of the NKVD's scientific-technical intelligence section, operating under the cover of being an engineer for Amtorg.
Robert L. J. Long	He joined the Defense Policy Board in 1984, and was a part of the Advisory Committee on Command and Control of Nuclear Weapons, chaired by Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Frederick Charles Frank	During World War II he joined the Chemical Defence Experimental Station at Porton Down, Wiltshire but in 1940 was transferred to the Air Ministry's Assistant Directorate of Intelligence (Science) and spent the rest of the war with the Air Ministry.
John Cockcroft	In 1944, he took charge of the Canadian Atomic Energy project and became Director of the Montreal Laboratory and Chalk River Laboratories, replacing Hans von Halban, who was considered a security risk.
Ray Lawson	When war broke out in 1939, Lawson went to work for C. D. Howe, Canadian Federal Minister of Munitions and Supply, as a'' dollar-a-year-man'', and was appointed president of Federal Aircraft Limited, a crown corporation established in Montreal to manufacture the Avro Anson trainer for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
M. P. Parameswaran	During 1987, as Convener of the National Organising Committee of the Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha, a unique communication event for India - he significantly contributed to the conceptualisation, organisation and conduct of this massive communication experiment.
Irving Goff	In 1941, Goff was approached by former Abraham Lincoln Battalion commander Milton Wolff to work for British intelligence through the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Osman Achmatowicz	In September 1939 all research was halted by the outbreak of war and Achmatowicz's laboratory and research files were destroyed in subsequent bombing.
Henry H. Arnold	To encourage the use of civilian expertise, the California Institute of Technology became a beneficiary of Air Corps funding and Theodore von Kármán of its Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory developed a good working relationship with Arnold that led to the creation of the Scientific Advisory Group in 1944.
George Mackinolty	Serving as AMSE for the remainder of the war, Mackinolty was credited with successfully managing the supply requirements of personnel and aircraft for an organisation that by 1945 had grown by a factor of fifty from its pre-war size, to become the world's fourth largest air force.
Victor Riesel	He also attacked the 1954 pro-union film Salt of the Earth as communistic, and implied that the production's on-location proximity to Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Nevada Test Site was a cover for Soviet spying on the American nuclear weapons program.
John Salmond	Salmond resigned his post as Director of Armament Production in 1941 after clashing with Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister of Aircraft Production immediated acted the post of Director-General of Flying Control and Air Sea Rescue.
Hafeez Hoorani	In 1999, he returned to Pakistan for a short visit where he successfully convinced the Government of Pakistan to set up a group working on different aspects of the Large Hadron Collider at the National Center for Physics.
George C. Rickards	During his term he worked to implement provisions of the 1920 National Defense Act, including reorganizing National Guard units to standardize them with units of the regular Army, building new armories and training sites, and taking steps to standardize training and education requirements between the National Guard and the regular Army.
Shir? Ishii	In 1932, he began his preliminary experiments in biological warfare as a secret project for the Japanese military at Zhongma Fortress.
Valery Ryumin	From 1966 to the present, he has been employed at the Rocket Space Corporation Energia, holding the positions of : Ground Electrical Test Engineer, Deputy Lead Designer for Orbital Stations, Department Head, and Deputy General Designer for Testing.
A. H. J. Prins	Following the 1944 Battle of Arnhem, he was incorporated into the British Intelligence Section (MI9), a department of the War Office tasked with aiding resistance fighters in enemy occupied territories.
Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville	In February 1919, Somerville wrote a review setting out a number of basic principles for service and encouraging the development of specialist intelligence technical skills within the navy for intelligence gathering and analysis.
Richard Gambier-Parry	In 1941, Rear Admiral John Henry Godfrey, the Director of British Naval Intelligence, chose Colonel Gambier-Parry as his radio consultant for Operation Tracer, a highly-classified, military operation in which a team sealed in a clandestine observation post was to monitor enemy vessels should Gibraltar fall to the Axis Powers.
Herbert Loper	Following the revelation of the espionage activities of Klaus Fuchs in 1950, Loper and the Chief of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, were asked to write a report on the impact of Klaus' activities.
John A. Dahlgren	By 1847, he was an ordnance officer, and at the Washington Navy Yard began to improve and systematize the procurement and supply system for weapons.
Jos? Antonio Balseiro	The Argentine government requested that he return to Argentina in 1952, a few months before the expiration of his scholarship, to serve in the scientific review panel of the Huemul Project, a study on nuclear fusion conducted by Ronald Richter.
John B. Coffey	In 1950 at the beginning of the Korean War, he was recalled to active duty and began training in the new technologies that the SAC in the early years of the Cold War was developing under the leadership of then-Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay.
Carl Keenan Seyfert	In 1942 he returned to Cleveland, at Case Institute of Technology, where he taught navigation to military personnel and participated in secret military research.
Samuel V. Wilson	In May 1976, Wilson, now a lieutenant general, was tapped as the new Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and oversaw the agency through'' the death of Mao Zedong, aircraft hijackings, unrest in South Africa, and continuing Mideast dissension.''
Leason Adams	In 1937 he became the director of the Laboratory, and during World War II he served as the director of Division I (ballistics) of the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
David Evans (RAAF officer)	He sponsored the development of an Australian air power doctrine, eventually published as the Air Power Manual under one of his successors, Air Marshal Ray Funnell, in 1990.
Julius H. Kroehl	However, when Kroehl was ordered to support Union forces during the Vicksburg Campaign of 1863, he was directed to bring with him photographic equipment after spending one month being trained on their use by members of the U. S. Coast Survey in Washington, DC.
Adam Watson	A key figure in this organisation, he was first assistant to its Head, Ralph Murray, with the job of recruiting' left-of-centre intellectuals' for the production of anti-communism' grey' propaganda, and was later posted to Washington (Andrew Defty,' Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda' (Routledge 2004)).
Gubby Allen	In 1940, Allen was appointed as an Anti-Aircraft (AA) liaison officer to RAF Hawkinge, part of an initiative to share intelligence on German AA operations with bomber groups ; these posts were controlled by a branch of Military Intelligence, MI14 E. Later in the year, Allen's brother Geoffrey was killed fighting in France.
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet	Although Wilson was less obsessed about the dangers of espionage than Edmonds (then running MO5 -- military intelligence), in March 1908 he had two German barbers removed as potential spies from Staff College.
Oskar Ursinus	He was conscripted into the German Army in 1914 and requested a position in aircraft design.
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy	During the war he was evacuated to Kuybishev and in 1942 settled in Moscow where he joined a design bureau led by Artem Mikoyan, the developer of the Soviet fighter jets known around the world as MIG s. Lozinskiy led the work on the first Soviet jet engine with an adjustable nozzle and was responsible for the production of several generations of MIG fighter jets.
Peter Ramsbotham	In April 1941, Ramsbotham was working in B3 Division of MI5 (Communications) with the task of studying the activities of foreign journalists in the UK.
Frederick Gardner Cottrell	Starting out by establishing an office in San Francisco, Cottrell served the Bureau in several capacities, including that of Director in Washington, D. C. Experimental work on helium production for use in balloons and dirigibles began in 1917 at the U. S. Bureau of Mines, with Cottrell playing a vital role in making helium production financially feasible during World War I.
Stephen Roskill	He was the senior British observer at the Bikini Atomic tests in 1946, and served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, 1946-48 before retiring as a captain, due to increasing deafness caused by exposure to gun detonations.
Francis Reichelderfer	The Navy assigned Reichelderfer to Bergen, Norway, in 1931 for further studies in air mass and frontal analysis.
Erich Traub	In July 1948, the British evacuated Erich Traub from Riems Island as a'' high priority Intelligence target'' since it was now in the Soviet Zone and they feared that Traub was assisting in their biological warfare program.
Vajiravudh	In 1925 Vajiravudh had to dissolve his Nakorn Sri Thammarat regiment and merged the administrative provinces into larger ones to lower the maintenance cost.
Rajagopala Chidambaram	In 1967, Chidambaram joined the nuclear weapon designing effort and along with his fellow scientists in constructing and building the metallurgical and physical aspects of the nuclear weapons.
Ehud Tenenbaum	Tenenbaum became widely famous in 1998, when aged 19 years and while he was the head of a small group of hackers, he was arrested for hacking computers belonging to NASA, The Pentagon, the U. S. Air Force, the U. S. Navy, the Knesset, MIT and other American and Israeli universities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other federally funded research sites, and the computer of Israeli President Ezer Weizman, as well as attempting to infiltrate the Israel Defense Forces' classified files.
Svetopolk Pivko	He worked in the Institute until 1964 when as a colonel in technical aviation, his service within the JNA ceased.
Petro Pysarchuk	In 1984 he became the Deputy of principal of staff at the construction of Kachinskaja, Achinsk fuel energy complex, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
Charles Trochu	In 1936 Trochu and 29 other councilors proposed building underground highways so the population could be evacuated safely in case of an air attack with chemical weapons.
Walter Samuel Hunter	However, it was enough for President Truman to award Hunter the President's Medal for Merit in 1948, for `` having recognized that research on the psychological and physiological capacities of man in relation to the new instruments of warfare could contribute materially to the more effective utilization of both military personnel and instruments''.
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov	In 1949 he was transferred to Kuybyshev (currently the City of Samara) which is headed by the State union pilot plant number 2 on the development and manufacture of advanced jet engines now known as'' N. D. Kuznetsova Samara Scientific and Technical Complex''.
John Tasker Henderson	In 1939, he became involved with the secret radar development and is particularly recognized for his leadership role in this technology during World War II, laying the foundations for radar research and manufacture in Canada.
Richard Peirse (Royal Navy officer)	After the War he became Naval Member of the Central Committee of the Board of Invention and Research and retired from the Navy in January 1919.
Ivan Bubnov	In 1900, he was appointed Chief Assistant at the Russian Admiralty test tank and was involved in the design of the first Russian submarine, the Delfin.
John Lenthall (shipbuilder)	After the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, however, the United States Department of War sought Lenthall s help in designing shallow - draft warships for United States Army use in riverine warfare operations against Confederate forces.
Albert Beaumont Wood	He joined the Admiralty Research Laboratory in Teddington when this body was formed in 1921, where he eventually became Deputy Superintendent.
Abraham Esau	When the HWA gave control of the project to the RFR in 1942, Esau became the plenipotentiary of nuclear physics and was in control of the project.
Howard Florey	Florey's research team investigated the large-scale production of the mould and efficient extraction of the active ingredient, succeeding to the point where, by 1945, penicillin production was an industrial process for the Allies in World War II.
Alexander Kennedy	In 1900 Kennedy was asked by The Admiralty to serve as a member of the Belleville Boiler Committee to investigate the installation of French designed Belleville boiler s on Diadem class cruiser s.
Frederick Vinton Hunt	In 1942, Chris Engelman in the Navy Bureau of Ships asked Hunt for suggestions that would make the job of an acoustic ranging technician more glamorous, in order to help the Navy to recruit enlisted men.
Billy Mitchell	Mitchell believed that the use of floating bases was necessary to defend the nation against naval threats, but Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William S. Benson had dissolved Naval Aeronautics as an organization early in 1919.
John E. McLaughlin	His CIA career lasted more than 30 years starting in 1972 with a focus on European, Russian, and Eurasian issues in the Directorate of Intelligence.
Rihab Taha	In 1985, she worked in the al-Muthanna chemical plant near Baghdad, and later became chief production officer in al-Hakam/al-Hakum, Iraq's top-secret biological-warfare facility at the time.
Mihajlo Pupin	When the United States joined the First World War in 1917, Pupin was working at Columbia University, organizing a research group for submarine detection techniques.
Mario Pezzi	Broglio himself described that meeting with Pezzi :'' In 1956, secretary-general of ITAF Pezzi, the man famous for his altitude flight records, asked me to replace the officer responsible for the ITAF Ammunition Research Unit, a branch of the Service dealing with rockets and missiles too.
Robert Bacher	He also served on the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, the civilian agency that replaced the wartime Manhattan Project, and in 1947 he became one of its inaugural commissioners.
Kirill A. Yevstigneyev	At the end of 1942 he was reassigned to the Moscow headquarters of the VVS, where he was put to work in management of the procurement of Bell P-39 Airacobras from the United States under the Lend-Lease program.
John Tasker Henderson	In early 1939, Henderson was selected to represent Canada in a series of highly classified briefings in Great Britain concerning developments in the Air Ministry on Range and Direction Finding (RDF -- later called radar).
Horace Meek Hickam	On January 21, 1919, Major Hickam was appointed chief of the Information Division, Office of the Director of Air Service, in Washington D. C., where he supervised the first written history of the Air Service.
Theodore C. Lyster	These efforts, along with his 1917 creation of the post of Chief Surgeon, Aviation Section, Signal Corps and his planning and directing of the United States Army Air Medical Service, earned him the title of `` Father of Aviation Medicine'' or `` Father of Army Aviation Medicine''.