Minding My Business - Dr. George Robert Carruthers - inventor/physicist / engineer/space scientist.

George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020) was an African-American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Scientist George Carruthers built his first telescope at the age of 10. He earned his Ph.D. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering at the University of Illinois in 1964 and began working at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. His telescope and image converter was used to identify molecular hydrogen in space and his ultraviolet camera/spectrograph was used by Apollo 16 during the flight to the moon.