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Here is a brief summary of George
Ludwig’s major career accomplishments and positions:
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Principal instrumentor for Explorers
I, II, III, IV, V, S-16, VII and S-46 while a student at the University of Iowa. Co-discoverer of the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
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Served as Project Scientist for NASA’s Orbiting Geophysical Observatories
1, 3 and 5, which carried more than 60 instruments to conduct a wide
variety of space science investigations.
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Directed the design, construction, and check-out of the TITOS-N/NOAA
polar-orbiting satellite system and of many of the evolutionary
improvements to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
system.
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Technical Director, NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Service.
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Director, NOAA’s Environmental Research Laboratories. Directed work of
nine major research laboratories and additional program offices and
research units.
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Assistant Chief Scientist, NASA, Washington DC. Critical examination of
NASA space research data management.
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California Institute of Technology Visiting Senior Scientist at NASA
Headquarters. Led effort to define the Data and Information Systems for
the Global Change Research Program and early-Earth Observing System
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