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Jun 19, 2006 · Robert W. Mann, an engineer and former rocket scientist who developed the world's first biomedical prosthetic device, died Friday, June 16, of a heart attack. A longtime resident of Lexington, Mass., and Moultonborough, N.H., Mann was 81.
He is survived by a son, Robert W. Mann Jr. of Port Washington, N.Y.; a daughter, Dr. Catherine L. Mann, an economist, of Great Falls, Va.; a brother, Dr. Kenneth Mann, a biochemist, of...
He is survived by a son, Robert Jr. (S.B. 1975, S.M. 1977), and daughter-in-law, Susan, of Port Washington, New York; a daughter, Catherine, and son-in-law, Randy Hartnett, of Great Falls, Virginia; two sisters, Virginia Swartz of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Helene Madigan of St. Paul, Minnesota; a brother, Kenneth, of Burlington, Vermont ...
Robert Wellesley Mann (1924, Brooklyn, New York – 2006) was a pioneer in the field of medical prosthetics. Mann was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where professor of mechanical engineering for almost 40 years and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Bob is survived by son Robert W. Jr., (M.I.T. S.B.'75, S.M.'77) who has been a senior executive of several airlines and now conducts his own airline industry analysis and consulting business. Bob (Jr.) has his wife, Susan and two sons and a daughter.
Jun 16, 2006 · Professor and Mrs. Mann's daughter, Dr. Catherine L. Mann, Radcliffe/Harvard A.B.'77, M.I.T. Ph.D.'84, served in policy advisory positions in Washington at the Federal Reserve Board and Institute for International Economics and is now a Professor of International Economics and Finance at Brandeis University she and her husband Randy Hartnett of ...
Mann was a first cousin of author Flannery O'Connor. Brother: Kenneth Mann (biochemist) Sister: Helene Mann Madigan Sister: Virginia Mann Swartz Wife: Margaret Florencourt (computer designer, m. 1945, d. 2002) Daughter: Catherine L. Mann (economist) Son: Robert W. Mann, Jr. (airline executive) High School: Brooklyn Technical High School ...
- June 16, 2006