Thaler, William J., 1925-2005

found: ABM and the changed strategic military balance, 1969 :t. p. (a study by a special American Security Council Committee of 31 experts, co-chaired by ... Dr. William J. Thaler, Chairman, Physics Department, Georgetown University)

found: New York Times, June 15, 2005, viewed June 23, 2016 :William Thaler, 79, Physicist on Secret Project for the Navy, Dies (Dr. William J. Thaler, an experimental physicist of the Cold War era who helped design an early electronic surveillance system for the Navy, died on June 5 at his home in Centreville, Va. ; conducted most of his secret research for the military in the 1950s before spending the rest of his career at Georgetown University where he was chairman of the physics department from 1960 to 1976 ; became professor emeritus in 1996 ; born in Baltimore ; attended Loyola College and earned a doctorate from Catholic University in 1952) - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/18/us/william-thaler-79-physicist-on-secret-project-for-the-navy-dies.html

found: Wikipedia, viewed June 23, 2016 :William J. Thaler (William J. Thaler, Ph.D. (Dec. 4, 1925-June 5, 2005) was an American experimental physicist ; working for the Office of Naval Research at the National Research Laboratory in the 1950s, developed an early warning system to detect the launching of ballistic missiles using high frequency radio waves ; in late 1960, joined the faculty of Georgetown University ; died at his home in Centreville, Va. at age 79) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Thaler

found: Find a grave website, viewed June 23, 2016 :(William J. Thaler, birth : Dec. 4, 1925, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA ; death : Jun. 5, 2005, Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA) - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62909498