Biography:Chalmers W. Sherwin
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Chalmers W. Sherwin was an American physicist 1926-2007 (81 years). Studied at University of Chicago, MIT, Columbia University, and the University of Illinois. He earned a PhD. Worked at the United States Air Force and Aerospace Corporation.[1]
During World War II, he helped the development of an advanced distant-warning system and airplane-mounted radar. As head of research at General Atomic, he oversaw the development of a carbon heart valve. He wrote two college physics texts and secured numerous patents.[1] Around 1959 as a physicist at the University of Illinois, he suggested a computerised learning system and this would eventually become the PLATO system in 1960.[2]
See also
- PLATO (computer system)
- Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Welcome to the University of Chicago Magazine Online". 2007-05-15. https://magazine.uchicago.edu/9808/html/deaths.html. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ↑ "PLATO: From Computer-Based Education to Corporate Social Responsibility". 2003-11-05. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/vanmeer.html. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
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