Ernst Henry Krause


Ernst H. Krause was an American nuclear physicist and aerospace executive. He participated in early radar and rocketry research at the Naval Research Laboratory as the first chairman of the Upper Atmosphere Research Panel, working with Milton Rosen and succeeded by James Van Allen. His body of work includes experiments studying the upper atmosphere after World War II using captured V-2 rockets. From 1947 to 1951 he was involved in the first atomic testing at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific, and later worked at the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. In 1955 he started the Systems Research Corporation, which later became Ford Aerospace.

Selected publications

The Sensitized Fluorescence of Potassium Cosmic Radiation Above 40 Miles, Physical Review 70,223 Additional Cosmic-Ray Measurements with the V-2 Rocket, Physical Review 70,776 Further Cosmic-Ray Experiments above the Atmosphere, Physical Review 71,918 V-2 Cloud-Chamber Observation of a Multiply Charged Primary Cosmic Ray, Physical Review 75,524

Selected patents