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Guide To The Dr. L.S. Dederick Papers, 1908-1956, Undated, Orson Kingsley, Patrick Koetsch
Guide To The Dr. L.S. Dederick Papers, 1908-1956, Undated, Orson Kingsley, Patrick Koetsch
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Louis Serle (L.S.) Dederick was born in Chicago in 1883. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1909. From 1909 – 1917 he was a professor at Princeton University. From 1917 – 1924 he was professor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1926 Dederick began working for the U.S. Army, Ordnance. During his time there he was the Associate Director of the Ballistic Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland where he focused on ballistics research.
While Dederick worked as a mathematician at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, he was involved with …