George R. Carruthers

George R. Carruthers was born on October 1, 1939; he is an African American inventor, physicist and space scientist. At a young age Carruthers showed interest in science and astronomy, he grew up on the South side of Chicago where at age ten he built his first telescope he did not do well in school, he earned poor grades in math and in physics. Despite his poor grades he won three different science fair awards during this time. In 1964 he went to work for the U. S Naval Research Laboratory as a National Foundation postdoctoral fellow. Two years later he became a full time research physicist at the NRL’s E. O. Hurlburt Center of Space Research. On November 11, 1969, Carruthers was awarded a patent for his Image Converter for Detecting Electromagnetic