William F. Ballhaus, Sr.

William F. Ballhaus, Sr.
Born 1918
Died August 16, 2013(2013-08-16) (aged 95)
Fields aerospace engineering
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Aerodynamic and geometric parameters affecting aircraft weight (1947)

William F. Ballhaus, Sr (1918 – August 16, 2013) was an engineer who worked in the field of aircraft and manufacturing.[1] He was educated at Stanford University and California Institute of Technology. He was employed at various posts in aircraft design and manufacture at Douglas, Convair, and Northrop (chief engineer).[1] In 1965, he was appointed president of Beckman Instruments, where he gradually converted the manufacturing focus from defense to medical instruments. Ballhaus had a keen interest in economics, particularly in the relationship between tax policy and growth, and played a role in the lowering of capital gains taxes by Congress in 1978.[1][2] He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973 and, with the election of his son, William F. Ballhaus, Jr., to the same institution, they became the first father-son members of NAE.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Obituary (2014) AIAA Fellow Ballhaus Died in August 2013, Aerospace America 52(1), B21.
  2. ↑ EF Denison (1979) "Accounting for Slower Economic Growth", Brookings Institution Press.


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