Maxwell K. Goldstein

Maxwell K. Goldstein (1908-1980) received his doctorate degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1933, and subsequently joined the Air Navigation Development Board, helping develop automatic remote indicating systems for antiaircraft gun control apparatus at the U.S. Army Air Force's Wright Field near Riverside, Ohio, USA.

In 1939 he joined the Naval Research Laboratory and during World War II was in charge of its radio direction-finder work, which was essential to making HF/DF detection of German U-boats as practical as and more effective than shipboard radar during the Battle of the Atlantic. He later became the head of the NRL's navigation section. In 1947 Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal awarded Dr. Goldstein the Distinguished Civilian Service Award "for distinguished contributions to the Naval Service in developing high-frequency direction finding as a vital weapon for combating the German submarine menace during the crucial Battle of the Atlantic."

In 1951 he co-founded with M. H. Kimball Balco Research Laboratories Newark, New Jersey, where he initially acted as vice president and technical director of research, later becoming president of the company. Balco specialized in high resistance, military grade capacitors, becoming sole supplier to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1962 and supplying capacitors for the U.S. Navy's Polaris nuclear missile program. Dr. Goldstein sold Balco to

Dr. Goldstein joined the Institute of Radio Engineers as an Associate Member 1930 while he was an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins, and became a Senior Member in 1946. He was also a member of Sigma Xi.

Further reading

[Martin Pope: a Biographical Sketch|http://chemxserver.chem.nyu.edu/MPope/Biography.htm]

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Geoffrey B. Mason, "HF/DF or HUFF DUFF - High Frequency Radio Direction Finding in Royal Navy Warships," [Naval History.net|http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Tech-HFDF.htm].

Kathleen Broome Williams, Secret Weapon: U.S. High‐Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996).