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Francis Clauser

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1913 – 2013
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Douglas Smith
Betty Clauser and her brothers pose with the motorcycle the boys rebuilt to get to classes at Caltech.
Credit: The Clauser family
Francis H. Clauser (BS '34, MS '35, PhD '37), the Clark Blanchard Millikan Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, passed away on March 3, 2013, at age 99. Born in the decade following the Wright Brothers' first powered flight, he was a founder of modern aeronautics and helped usher in the Space Age.

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