Ernst Henry Krause

Dr Ernst H. Krause (1913 – 23 August 1989 in Newport Beach, CA) was an American nuclear physicist and aerospace executive. He participated in early radar and rocketry research.

elected publications

* "The Sensitized Fluorescence of Potassium" (PhD thesis, U. Wisconsin at Madison, 1938) [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v55/i2/p164_1]
* Cosmic Radiation Above 40 Miles, Physical Review 70,223 (1946) [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v70/i3-4/p223_1]
* "Additional Cosmic-Ray Measurements with the V-2 Rocket", Physical Review 70,776 (1946) [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v70/i9-10/p776_1]
* "Further Cosmic-Ray Experiments above the Atmosphere", Physical Review 71,918 (1947) [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v71/i12/p918_1]
* "V-2 Cloud-Chamber Observation of a Multiply Charged Primary Cosmic Ray", Physical Review 75,524 (1949) [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v75/i3/p524_1]

elected patents

*: "Modulation-on-pulse control systems"
*: "Pulse group selectors"
*: "Discriminator circuits"
*: "Electric counting and integration system"
*: "Remote echo ranging system"
*: "Pulse signaling system"
*: "Secret pulse signaling system"

External links

* Oral history interview from the AIP Center for History of Physics (1983) [http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!28193~!0&profile=newcustom-icos]
* NASA history of rocketry: Chapters 1 [http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4215/ch1-1.html] and 3 [http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4401/ch3.htm]
* James van Allen's notes on the history of rocketry (U. Iowa) [http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/java/java_high.html]
* Obituary from the New York Times [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4DC1338F93AA1575BC0A96F948260]