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Ramo, Simon (1913– )| US engineer and aerospace executive. He developed microwave technology at General Electric and made Hughes Aircraft a major defence contractor before cofounding the Los Angeles-based Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (later TRW) and Bunker Ramo. As chief scientist of the US intercontinental ballistic missile programme 1954–58 he helped to develop the Atlas, Titan, and Minuteman missiles. |
| He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1983 he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. |
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