Outstanding Technical Contribution Award winners at BEYA 2023 – US Black Engineer
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 4, 2023
Dr. George E. Carruthers was a senior astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory when he won the inaugural Outstanding Technical Contribution Award at the BEYA STEM Conference. As a research physicist, Carruthers (1939-2020) was a leader in developing low-cost approaches to conducting experiments in space, especially from the space shuttle.
In 1987, Carruthers told US Black Engineer magazine he is often asked what could be done to motivate students to . . .
