Education
Born in 1923 in Denver, Bate began college at Caltech as a chemistry major studying under Linus Pauling in 1941. In 1943, in the middle of World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and transferred to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated in 1947 and spent the next three years studying as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK, where he earned degrees in nuclear physics. From 1951 to 1952, he served with the 10th Engineer Combat Battalion in Korea. In 1966, he earned his PhD in control systems from Stanford University. He was the first Permanent Professor in the Astronautics Department, and later became Vice Dean of the Air Force Academy.
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