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PROFESSIONAL BI OGRAPHY
Thomas F. Rogers is a physicist, an electronics-communications engineer,
a private investor, and the president of his family's private operating
foundation: The Sophron Foundation. He holds B.Sc. and M.A. degrees in
Physics, has held professional positions with university, industrial,
government, and not-for-profit organizations, and has held senior federal
administrative positions. He did basic, applied research and development
work at the Radio Research Laboratory of Harvard University, the Bell and
Howell Co., and the Air Force Cambridge Research Center. While at the Air
Force Center, he organized a Laboratory on Radiowave Propagations and later,
one on Communications, and he worked on our first intercontinental ballistic
missile, the Atlas. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Linco]
Laboratory he organized its Communications Division and was a member of the
Laboratory's steering committee, and he headed the group that was the first
to accomplish transmission of television signals via an orbiting
spacecraft. Later, as a Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering
in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he was responsible for advances
in the command and control of our strategic nuclear forces, for the general
design, development, and deployment of the first globe] satellite
conununications system, and for the beginning of work on satellite
navigation-position fixing and very high energy lasers.
He was the first Director of Research in the Office of the Secretary of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development where he inaugurated federal
urban research and development, and helped found the Urban Institute.
Later, he was a Vice President of the Mitre Corporation. He was a member of
a group of the President's Science Advisory Committee and a member of the
Federal Council on Science and Technology. For the past dozen years he has
been an advisor to several federal executive and legislative branch offices,
several major foundations, both the National Academy of Sciences and the
National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicine. He was a member
of the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine/Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation group that inaugurated emergency medical system services
in over forty locations throughout the country. He has been a
member-at-large on nearly all of those professional groups that advise the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration on space applications, and is
now a member of both the Space Applications Board and the Voice of America
Study Committee of the National Research Council. He played a leading role
in prompting the recent federal decision to explore the use of satellites
for international direct audio broadcasting.
Most recently, he directed a study of civilian space stations and the
U.S. future in space for the United States Congress as a consultant to its
Office of Technology Assessment. His family's Foundation has established
programs in Northern Virginia for housing the elderly in crises, and a
children's dental program, and is exploring some novel civilian space
activities. He has published over fifty professional papers and book
chapters, has lectured widely, and has testified, oftentimes, before the
U.~. Congress. He is a Fe7 low of the Institute of Electrical and
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Electronics Engineers and a member of the Cosmos Club. His professional
biography appears in American Men and Women of Science and Who's Who in
America.
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