Naval Research. Following World War II, Dr. Wakelin helped 

 establish the Engineering Research Associates, Inc., as Director 

 of Research, and as Director of the Field Survey Group of PRO- 

 JECT SQUID under ONR contract to Princeton University. 



In 1948 he became Associate Director of Research of the Tex- 

 tile Research Institute in Princeton, and in 1951 was appointed 

 Director of Research. In 1954 Dr. Wakelin established his own 

 consulting business as a consultant on research planning and organ- 

 ization to General Electric Company, Stanford Research Institute, 

 American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation, J. P. Ste- 

 vens and Company, Inc., Frenchtown Porcelain Company, and 

 Star Porcelain Company. He helped found the Chesapeake Instru- 

 ment Corporation in 1954, established to conduct research and 

 development for the Navy in the fields of underwater sound and 

 acoustical devices. He was also a Research Associate with Tex- 

 tile Research Institute working on the structure and physical pro- 

 perties of high polymers under a program sponsored by the Office 

 of Naval Research. 



On July 8, 1959, Dr. Wakelin became the first to hold the 

 office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Develop- 

 ment. On July 16, 1959, he was designated Chairman of the sub- 

 committee of the Federal Council for Science and Technology 

 fori 1 , to look into plans for meeting the Nation's needs in oceano- 

 graphy. This subcomnnittee, on 22 January I960, was made a per- 

 marent part of the Council and redesignated as the Interagency 

 Committee on Oceanography. Dr. Wakelin has remained Chairman. 

 In July I960, he was Head of the United States Delegation to the 

 Intergovernmental Conference on Oceanographic Research which 

 met in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Conference recommended the 

 establishment, under UNESCO, of an intergovernmental Oceano- 

 graphic Commission (IOC) to promote scientific investigations 

 of the oceans. Dr. Wakelin was also Head of the United States 

 Delegation to the First Session of the IOC held in October 1961 in 

 Paris, France. 



Dr. Wakelin is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Physical 

 Society, Americaji Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Textile Research Institute, Textile Institute of Great Britain, and 

 '»as been a contributor of scientific papers to the Journal of Applied 

 Physics, the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, and Textile Re- 

 search Journal in the field of high polymer physics. He is co- 

 author, with C. B. Tompkins and W. W. Stifler, Jr., of "High- 

 Speed Computing Devices, " published by McGraw-Hill Book Company 

 in 1950. 



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