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The History of OSA: Presidential Profile: Frederick Dowswell Smith

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Abstract

F. Dow Smith, an American physicist by way of Canada, made a name for himself as one of the lead developers of spy satellite technology during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

© 2012 Optical Society of America

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