Robert Dexter Conrad Award For Scientific Achievement Medal - Named Miniature
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U.S. Navy - Robert Dexter Conrad Award for Scientific Achievement medal - formal dress miniature medal.
Approximately 56 awards have been made since it was created in 1957. The actual medal is a 60mm, 14k gold medal. The only one I've seen on the market was in 2009 and sold for over $3, 800. It was the 1971 award. This one isn't gold, but you can use it as a filler until you find a full size one.
This is a regular miniature medal for the full size award, being appx. 3...0mm wide, and on the original appx 17mm ribbon, with single clutch-back suspension. Shows some wear and dirt from storage. See photos for condition. The reverse is named and dated HASKELL G. WILSON / 1970 . Haskell G. Wilson, former China Lake Technical Director, died Tuesday, July 17, 2001 at the Alhambra Lutheran Home in Alhambra. He was 90. Mr. Wilson was the Naval Weapons Center's top civilian leader from March 1970 until his retirement from civil service in April 1973. He had previously spent five months as NWC technical director from June 1967 to January 1968. In a July 18 message to all hands, Rear Adm. Bert Johnston, commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, praised Mr. Wilson's contributions, in particular his ability to mold civilian and military together.
Born June 6, 1911, Mr. Wilson earned his chemical engineering degree from the University of Arkansas. Beginning his engineering career with an asphalt manufacturer in Saint Louis, Mo., he also performed design and experimental work on construction materials for the Arkansas State Highway Commission. During World War II, he worked as a loading engineer for the Arkansas Ordnance Plant, then became the field director of ammunition plants in Saint Louis, an ordnance engineering position for which the Army Service awarded him a Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
With the war's end, he began work in the Fuse Research Development Section in the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. a job that put him in close contact with China Lake's fuse and explosives experts. He began work at China Lake in June 1950, just days after the Korean conflict began. After pitching in to help on the night-and-day effort to develop an anti-tank rocket needed at the front, he turned to work as head of the Coordination Branch in Central Staff, the job for which he had been hired. From 1951-54, he was associate head of the Test Department and from 1954-55, head of Central Staff. "In all of those positions" noted a management report of the day, "he exhibited soundness of judgement, a stability of performance, and a personal reliability on which the management of the Station came to depend heavily."
In 1955, he became China Lake's associate technical director. For more than a dozen years, Mr. Wilson served as the right-hand man for Dr. William B. McLean, inventor of the Sidewinder missile and China Lake technical director from 1954-67.
"Those who worked at China Lake in those days looked back on that team with pride. Hack saw to it that things got done, and Bill saw to it that there were lots of things to do, " said Dr. Pierre Saint-Amand.
When NOTS became the Naval Weapons Center and McLean left to become the technical director of the Naval Ocean Systems Center at San Diego, Wilson stepped into the technical director's spot, resuming that job less than two years later and continuing until his retirement in 1973. "Hack had the singular talent of making all this energy work together and pull together through those years, " said John Di Pol. "I think the real burgeoning of the center in the many years he worked at China Lake was due in no small part to his administrative and managerial skills."
Among Mr. Wilson's many honors was the Robert Dexter Conrad Award for Scientific Achievement, which he received in 1970 in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of research and development.
Check the photos for details and condition. Shipped within the US by USPS First Class Package. I will sell international, (Not to Russia or China) and shipping will be by ebay's global shipping program. I have no control of the cost or fees associate with international shipping so check the ebay policies. Please ask questions before bidding and as soon as possible, as I may not always be home to get your message.
Thanks for looking.
Approximately 56 awards have been made since it was created in 1957. The actual medal is a 60mm, 14k gold medal. The only one I've seen on the market was in 2009 and sold for over $3, 800. It was the 1971 award. This one isn't gold, but you can use it as a filler until you find a full size one.
This is a regular miniature medal for the full size award, being appx. 3...0mm wide, and on the original appx 17mm ribbon, with single clutch-back suspension. Shows some wear and dirt from storage. See photos for condition. The reverse is named and dated HASKELL G. WILSON / 1970 . Haskell G. Wilson, former China Lake Technical Director, died Tuesday, July 17, 2001 at the Alhambra Lutheran Home in Alhambra. He was 90. Mr. Wilson was the Naval Weapons Center's top civilian leader from March 1970 until his retirement from civil service in April 1973. He had previously spent five months as NWC technical director from June 1967 to January 1968. In a July 18 message to all hands, Rear Adm. Bert Johnston, commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, praised Mr. Wilson's contributions, in particular his ability to mold civilian and military together.
Born June 6, 1911, Mr. Wilson earned his chemical engineering degree from the University of Arkansas. Beginning his engineering career with an asphalt manufacturer in Saint Louis, Mo., he also performed design and experimental work on construction materials for the Arkansas State Highway Commission. During World War II, he worked as a loading engineer for the Arkansas Ordnance Plant, then became the field director of ammunition plants in Saint Louis, an ordnance engineering position for which the Army Service awarded him a Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
With the war's end, he began work in the Fuse Research Development Section in the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. a job that put him in close contact with China Lake's fuse and explosives experts. He began work at China Lake in June 1950, just days after the Korean conflict began. After pitching in to help on the night-and-day effort to develop an anti-tank rocket needed at the front, he turned to work as head of the Coordination Branch in Central Staff, the job for which he had been hired. From 1951-54, he was associate head of the Test Department and from 1954-55, head of Central Staff. "In all of those positions" noted a management report of the day, "he exhibited soundness of judgement, a stability of performance, and a personal reliability on which the management of the Station came to depend heavily."
In 1955, he became China Lake's associate technical director. For more than a dozen years, Mr. Wilson served as the right-hand man for Dr. William B. McLean, inventor of the Sidewinder missile and China Lake technical director from 1954-67.
"Those who worked at China Lake in those days looked back on that team with pride. Hack saw to it that things got done, and Bill saw to it that there were lots of things to do, " said Dr. Pierre Saint-Amand.
When NOTS became the Naval Weapons Center and McLean left to become the technical director of the Naval Ocean Systems Center at San Diego, Wilson stepped into the technical director's spot, resuming that job less than two years later and continuing until his retirement in 1973. "Hack had the singular talent of making all this energy work together and pull together through those years, " said John Di Pol. "I think the real burgeoning of the center in the many years he worked at China Lake was due in no small part to his administrative and managerial skills."
Among Mr. Wilson's many honors was the Robert Dexter Conrad Award for Scientific Achievement, which he received in 1970 in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of research and development.
Check the photos for details and condition. Shipped within the US by USPS First Class Package. I will sell international, (Not to Russia or China) and shipping will be by ebay's global shipping program. I have no control of the cost or fees associate with international shipping so check the ebay policies. Please ask questions before bidding and as soon as possible, as I may not always be home to get your message.
Thanks for looking.
