The Boston Globe, September 21st, 2001
Jack A. Kyger, of Andover and Punta Gorda, Fla., a scientist who played key roles in the development of the first nuclear-powered submarine and heat shields for manned flights to the moon, died Aug. 19. He was 85. Dr. Kyger was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and graduated from Yale University in 1935, where he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry. He earned his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940 in physical chemistry. He worked as a research chemist at Mallinkrodt Chemical Works in St. Louis from 1940 to 1944, when he was recruited as senior chemist at the Tennessee Ea...
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