Walter Cunningham
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1932-03-16
- Died
- 2023-01-03
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Eric Worrell's Australian Birds and Animals
- River Rivals
- Reasons Why Democrats Will Win the Impeachment Battle
- Apollo
- The all American boys
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 21
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,222x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,210x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,021x
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Key facts
- Born
- Ronnie Walter Cunningham , ( 1932-03-16 ) March 16, 1932, Creston, Iowa , U.S.
- Died
- January 3, 2023 (2023-01-03) (aged 90), Houston , Texas, U.S.
- Resting place
- Texas State Cemetery
- Education
- Santa Monica College ( AS ) University of California, Los Angeles ( BA , MA )
- Spouses
- Lo Ella Irby ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1989 ) Dorothy League ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1997 )
- Awards
- (see § Awards and honors )
- Rank
- Colonel , USMCR
- Time in space
- 10d 20h 8m
- Selection
- NASA Group 3 (1963)
- Missions
- Apollo 7
- Retirement
- August 1, 1971
- Website
- Official website
Key dates
- Born
- 16 March 1932
- Died
- 3 January 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 3
- Family name
- Cunningham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Creston
- Place of death
- Houston
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (March 16, 1932 – January 3, 2023) was an American astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of the 1977 book The All-American Boys. NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), he was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.
Early life, education and military career