Rickover, Hyman G.

Rickover, Hyman G.

▪ United States admiral
in full  Hyman George Rickover  
born Jan. 27, 1900, Makov, Russia
died July 8, 1986, Arlington, Va., U.S.
 American naval officer and engineer who developed the world's first nuclear-powered engines and the first atomic-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, launched in 1954. He then went on to supervise plans for harnessing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

      Brought up in Chicago, Rickover graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1922. He studied electrical engineering at Columbia University (M.S., 1929) and then took submarine training at New London, Conn. After serving on various submarines and on the battleship USS New Mexico, he was given command of the USS Finch, a minesweeper, in 1937. In 1939 he was assigned to Washington, D.C., to the Electrical Section of the Navy Department's Bureau of Ships; he later headed this section throughout World War II. In 1945 and 1946 he held posts in Okinawa and in San Francisco.

      In June 1946 Rickover went to Oak Ridge, Tenn., for further instruction in nuclear physics and engineering as part of the old Manhattan Project, which had developed the atom bomb. Returning to the Bureau of Ships in September 1947, he began to manage the navy's nuclear-propulsion program. His energy, frequently unorthodox methods, and ability to elicit almost fanatical devotion from his team of specialists were key factors in the development and early delivery of the Nautilus, whose keel was laid in June 1952 and which was launched on Jan. 21, 1954.

      While continuing his duties with the navy, Rickover also took charge of research on reactor development for the Atomic Energy Commission, helping to develop the first full-scale, civilian-use nuclear power plant in the United States at Shippingport, Pa. (1956–57). He was promoted to the rank of rear admiral (1953), vice admiral (1959), and admiral (1973). Throughout his career Rickover was a controversial figure because of his outspoken and even abrasive demeanour and his single-minded insistence on the development of nuclear power. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 1982, after serving as an officer for 63 years, a record made possible by an act of Congress that specially exempted him from having to retire at the age normal for senior admirals.

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