Harold Finger

Harold Finger
Harold Finger
Born	February 18, 1924 (age 100); Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Aeronautical Nuclear Engineer

Harold (Harry) Benjamin Finger (born February 18, 1924)^[1] is an American aeronautical nuclear engineer and the former head of the United States nuclear rocket program. He helped establish and lead the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office, a liaison organization between NASA and the Department of Energy to coordinate efforts to create a nuclear thermal rocket.^[2]

Notes

^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
^ Dewar, James. To The End Of The Solar System: The Story Of The Nuclear Rocket, Apogee, 2003. ISBN 978-1-894959-68-1

External links

Harold Finger short resume at the Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology section page of the American Nuclear Society website
Interview with Harold Finger at the NASA Oral History Project

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[1] U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.

[2] Dewar, James. To The End Of The Solar System: The Story Of The Nuclear Rocket, Apogee, 2003. ISBN 978-1-894959-68-1

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