The History of OSA
Presidential Profile: Frederick Dowswell Smith
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.
F. Dow Smith.
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Frederick Dowswell (F. Dow) Smith was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on 2 Jan 1921. He graduated from Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute in 1939. He served six years in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an airplane mechanic during World War II. After his military service, he completed his bachelor’s degree in 1947 and his master’s degree in physics in 1948 at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.
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