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Biography
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Full Birth Name:
Dorothy May Chapman
Birth Date:
1903
Birth Place:
Death Date:
1970
Death Place:
Father:
Fred Friend Chapman
Mother:
Carrie Belle Daniels
Spouse:
Emily Jane Phillips
Children:
Moved to NJ to find work and learned to coil transformers on the job. Studied on his own and learned to design them. Worked for several different companies. Apparently was designing transformers for radar systems during WWII and was considered essential so that he was not drafted to serve in the military. Eventually got a job as an electrical engineer at Lockheed. While at Lockheed he designed the prototype for a transformer used as part of the video system on the first Viking mission to Mars. He retired from there around 1974 and he and Mae moved back to Pennsylvania.
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