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July 13, 2025

NOVAC Public Meeting, Dr. David DeVorkin presents: From the Laboratory to the Moon: The Quiet Genius of George Carruthers, July 13, 4:30 pm EDT

Dr. David DeVorkin follows Carruthers from his childhood in Ohio and then Chicago to his career at the US NavalResearch Laboratory in Washington, DC. In the highly competitive world of space science in the 1960s and 1970s, Carruthers’s genius for experimentation and exploration transcended the racial stereotyping and discrimination of his day, and he achieved world-class