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February 2, 2021
On the Moon is a monument to a Cincinnati-born scientist. The memorial is not terribly large, but it’s covered in gold. The Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera is the only astronomical observatory located on the Moon, and it was designed by George R. Carruthers.
Cincinnati-born physicist George Carruthers (right) and his colleague William Conway examine the Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera designed by Carruthers for the Apollo 16 lunar mission. The camera—the only astronomical observatory installed on the Moon—remains on the lunar surface.
Image courtesy of NASA
George was born in 1939 as the oldest of Sophia and George Carruthers’ four children. The family lived in an apartment on Gilbert Avenue in Evanston. The senior George was a civil engineer employed by the Army Corps of Engineers during the early days of local remediation after the Great Flood of 1937. He encouraged his son’s interest in astronomy and space flight. George read a lot of science fiction, built his own telescope when he was just 10 years old and, with his father, built and launched model rockets. In 1999, he reminisced during a NASA oral history interview:
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George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer, who designed a telescope used by astronauts on the moon as part of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, is dead at 81 years. The mission was NASA’s attempt to examine Earth’s atmosphere and the composition of interstellar space.
Dr. Carruthers had developed an interest in space science from an early age and managed to build his first telescope at 10-years of age. Virtually, his entire career was spent at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.
In 1969, NASA posted what was termed as “an announcement of opportunity” towards the start of designing experiments for Apollo space flights. It’s this year that he began his project on his Apollo telescope. He later received a patent for an-Image Converter for Detecting Electromagnetic Radiation Especially in Short Wave Lengths -in November of 1969.
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Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
Dec. 31, 2020
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George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer who was the principal designer of a telescope that went to the moon as part of NASA's Apollo 16 mission in 1972 in an effort to examine the earth's atmosphere and the composition of interstellar space, died Dec. 26 at a Washington hospital. He was 81.
His brother Gerald Carruthers confirmed the death, saying his brother had dementia and other ailments.
Carruthers, who built his first telescope when he was 10, had a singular focus on space science from an early age and spent virtually his entire career at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. He was one of the country's leading African American astrophysicists.
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