Bill Pickering
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dr William Hayward Pickering, William Hayward Pickering, William Pickering, Sir William Pickering, Sir William Hayward Pickering
rocket scientist born in New Zealand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Pickering
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wellington
- Place of death
- La Cañada Flintridge
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- University of Canterbury
- Employer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert A. Millikan
- Doctoral student
- Leon Knopoff
- Field of work
- electrical engineering
- Image
- Pickering NASA photo.gif
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- Commons category
- William H. Pickering
- date of birth
- 1910-12-24
- date of death
- 2004-03-15
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- William Hayward Pickering
- cause of death
- pneumonia
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