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Albert Wohlstetter was born on 19 December, 1913 in New York, New York, U.S., is an American political scientist. Discover Albert Wohlstetter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation Military strategist Systems theorist
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 19 December, 1913
Birthday 19 December
Birthplace New York, New York, U.S.
Date of death 1997
Died Place Los Angeles, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Roberta Wohlstetter (née Morgan)

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1902

Albert's older siblings were William (1902–1967), Helene (1906–1974) and Charles (1910–1995).

Albert's brother Charles was an accomplished businessman who would help Albert get his start as a young man.

1912

In 1912, he founded one of the early phonograph companies, the Rex Talking Machine Corporation.

Luminaries of the performance world were regular guests in the Wohlstetter home.

The Rex company was taken over and its Wilmington, Delaware factory converted to war production during World War I.

1913

Albert James Wohlstetter (December 19, 1913 – January 10, 1997) was an American political scientist noted for his influence on U.S. nuclear strategy during the Cold War.

Albert Wohlstetter was born on 19 December 1913, the fourth and youngest child of Philip Wohlstetter and Nellie (née Friedman).

His paternal grandparents were cosmopolitan Jews who immigrated to the United States from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Albert's father, Philip, was born in the United States about twenty years later.

1918

Philip died of a heart attack in 1918 when Albert was four years old.

1930

At the time he was involved in radical politics, and was a member of the League for a Revolutionary Workers Party, a Trotskyist splinter group, in the mid-1930s.

1931

Wohlstetter started at City College of New York in 1931 through a scholarship in modern dance, earning a B.A. in 1934.

1934

Wohlstetter started at Columbia Law School on a fellowship in 1934.

It was in a class there that he met Roberta Morgan.

Wohlstetter was bored by law school and left the program after only one year.

He stayed at Columbia to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science where he studied under Abraham Wald and was a peer of Jacob Wolfowitz.

1937

After a thesis titled Language and Empiricism earned him an M.A. in June 1937, several fellowships allowed him to work on his dissertation.

He had a fellowship with the Social Science Research Council on a project to incorporate modern mathematical methods into economics and business cycle research.

During the 1937–1938 school year, Roberta had worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Southern California, during which time she became enamored with the California lifestyle.

1941

From 1941 to 1942 he was a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

1942

In August 1942 the Wohlstetters vacationed with Dwight Macdonald, one of the editors of Partisan Review, and his wife, Nancy in Nantucket.

He left Columbia's graduate program to work for the U.S. government on war planning during World War II and never completed his doctorate.

During the Second World War, Wohlstetter worked on problems of war production.

He was first hired by the Planning Committee of the War Production Board.

It is unclear how he ended up there.

In an interview, Wohlstetter says that while on the Carnegie associateship with NBER, Simon Kuznets was hired by Robert R. Nathan and it was Kuznets who hired Wohlstetter.

Albert's brother Charles recounts that it was Arthur F. Burns who gave Albert the job.

Later he worked at Atlas Aircraft Products Company.

After the war, Wohlstetter worked briefly in business in New York.

1946

He moved back to Washington, D.C. to serve as the Director of Programs for the National Housing Agency (USHA) in 1946 and 1947, the only time in his career he was a federal employee.

At the USHA Wohlstetter worked with Paul Weidlinger, an engineer who had worked during the war for an aircraft company owned by Albert's brother, Charles, designing modular buildings such as airplane hangars that could be assembled quickly.

At the USHA Wohlstetter and Weidlinger worked on applying such principles to domestic residential buildings.

1947

At her urging, and with his brother Charles helping to secure a job for Albert, the Wohlstetters moved to Santa Monica in 1947.

Albert went to work for the General Panel Corporation to "tool up" their industrial plant.

General Panel Corporation was a company founded by Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann, two important figures in the Bauhaus movement.

While on a walk, Albert and Roberta ran into Abe Girschick, Olaf Helmer and Chen McKinsey on the street in Santa Monica.

1974

Charles also employed Helene at one of his companies, ConTel, where she was killed in a shooting by a disgruntled employee in 1974.

The Wohlstetters lived in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

After attending the City College of New York, Philip Wohlstetter became an attorney and served as chief counsel to the Metropolitan Opera.

1985

He and his wife Roberta Wohlstetter, an accomplished historian and intelligence expert, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan on November 7, 1985.