COBE DMR Team

COsmic Background Explorer

DMR Hardware

Dave Nace was the DMR Instrument Engineer (beginning until 1988).
Bernie Klein was the DMR Instrument Engineer (1988-1990).
Dick Weber was the DMR Systems Engineer from the beginning until 1989.
Robert Patsche was the 31 GHz DMR engineer and also a fisherman Robert "Bobby" Patsche .
Maria Lecha was the 53 GHz DMR engineer.
Larry Hillard the 90 GHz DMR engineer.
Roger Ratliff was our microwaves components expert.
John Maruschak was our expert at testing microwave components.
Marco Toral was our antenna expert.
Cathy Richards was our cooled amplifier expert.
Chris Witebsky worked on the 90 GHz design.
John Gibson worked on the electronic design.
Peter Young worked on test facilities and procedures.
Gene Gochar was the DMR mechanical engineer for the Delta rework.
Frank Kischman was the DMR thermal engineer for the Delta redesign effort.
Rick Mills was in charge of our test and calibration effort.
Dave Amason wrote most of the command procedures for tests and operations and monitoring pages.
and many more click here for longer list including Berl Wittig, Duane McDermot, Lois Workman, Frank Jones, Steve Levin, Diane Schuster, Jim Cottrel, Diana Gordon, Javier Lecha, Wayne Hughes,