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James E. Webb
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administrator of NASA in 1961–1968 (1906–1992)
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- Born
- 1906
- Works
- 4
Top works
- The State of American public service
- Shisutemu jigyō keiei
- From Runnymede to Ganymede
- Space age management; the large-scale approach
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5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,005x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,905x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,091x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,962x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,533x
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Key facts
- President
- John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
- Deputy
- Hugh Dryden Robert Seamans Thomas O. Paine
- Preceded by
- T. Keith Glennan
- Succeeded by
- Thomas O. Paine
- Born
- James Edwin Webb , ( 1906-10-07 ) October 7, 1906, Tally Ho, North Carolina , U.S. (now Stem)
- Died
- March 27, 1992 (1992-03-27) (aged 85), Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Patsy Aiken Douglas ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1938 )
- Education
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ( BA ) George Washington University ( JD )
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch service
- United States Marine Corps
- Years of service
- 1930–1932 1944–1945
- Rank
- Lieutenant colonel
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- James E. Webb, official NASA photo, 1966.jpg
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- date of death
- 1992-03-27
- date of birth
- 1906-10-07
- name in native language
- James Edwin Webb
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James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968. Webb led NASA from the beginning of the Kennedy administration through the end of the Johnson administration, thus overseeing each of the critical first crewed missions throughout the Mercury and Gemini programs until days before the launch of the first Apollo mission. He also dealt with the Apollo 1 fire. He helped found the National Academy of Public Administration, a key locus for governmental reform studies.
In 2002, the Next Generation Space Telescope was renamed the James Webb Space Telescope as a tribute to Webb.