Frank Johnson Makes a Stellar President

Christy Grant
Wed, 30 Jul 1969 17:45:53 +0000
Academics, All UTD, Faculty & Staff, Sixties

Dr. Francis (Frank) Johnson becomes acting president of the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, and later of UT Dallas. Johnson comes to the center with an impressive space science career: he served in the Air Force during World War II, designed instruments to study German V-2 rockets captured after World War II, served on NASA and National Science Foundation advisory boards, and invented a lunar atmospheric pressure gauge that flew on Apollo flights 12, 14, and 15.