Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Martin Mandelberg is an engineer and mathematician. He is currently writing a biography about his mentor, Richard Hamming.

Martin earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University. He then earned two Master’s degrees, one in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and one in Strategy and National Security Studies from the U.S. Naval War College.

After working for the Coast Guard and the Naval Underwater Systems, he earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, where his dissertation advisor was Richard Hamming.

He went on to work for the U.S. government in the Office of the Secretary of Defense before he started his own company, Mandelberg Consulting.

 

Martin Mandelberg’s Timeline
1969 Earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University

1973 Earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Connecticut

1976 Earned a Master of Arts in Strategy and National Security Studies at the US Naval War College

1978 Met Richard Hamming

1982 Earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering

19831987 Worked for the Secretary of Defense

19872004 Worked for SAIC

2004 Founded Mandelberg Consulting Group, LLC.

Related Profiles

Jim Walther

Jim Walther is the director of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, NM.

Mitsugi Moriguchi

Japan

Mitsugi Moriguchi, born in Nagasaki, Japan, is a hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor). He was nine years old when the US dropped the “Fat Man” bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

G. Robert Gunther-Mohr

Washington, DC

G. Robert Gunther-Mohr joined the Manhattan Project in 1944. Mohr worked on the top secret polonium trigger being developed for the plutonium bomb at the Monsanto Chemical Company in Dayton, Ohio.

Jenny Kimball

Santa Fe, NM

Jenny Kimball is the Chairman of the Board of La Fonda on the Plaza, a hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.