speculation about a future possibility of teleporting human beings from Germany to California. His home and his laboratory were destroyed during the war. After the war he was not allowed to work on microwaves but he turned his attention to a wide range of other fields in electronics. In 1947 he accepted an offer from the US Government to work for NASA in California. In 1949 he sent Bense a copy of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), stimulating the latter's interest in cybernetics. He was married to Gisela Schimmelbusch and had three children. He died in Los Angeles in 1960. References External links Biography on his sixtieth birthday 1899 births 1960 deaths 20th-century German physicists Radar pioneers Operation Paperclip People from Solingen German emigrants to the United States