George Robert Carruthers

George Robert Carruthers is an AfricanAmerican inventor, physicist, and space scientist. He has lived most of his life in Washington, DC.

George Robert Carruthers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 1, 1939, and grew up in South Side, Chicago. His father was a civil engineer and his mother was a homemaker. The family lived in Milford, Ohio, until Carruthers father died suddenly and his mother moved the family back to her native Chicago. At an early age George developed an interest in physics, which his father encouraged. Also as a child, he enjoyed visiting Chicago museums, libraries and the Adler Planetarium that caused him to be an avid sciencefiction reader and enjoyed constructing model rockets. Later he became a member of the Chicago Rocket Society and various science clubs.

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