Leslie Earl Simon, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLeslie Earl Simon
American scientist
Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1900
Date of Death: 28-Oct-1983
Profession: statistician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Leslie Earl Simon
- Leslie Earl Simon (August 11, 1900 – October 28, 1983) was a 20th-century American scientist, and the author of the book German Research in World War II: An Analysis of the Conduct of Research.
- He was Major General, Ordnance Department, U.S.
- Army, and former Director of the Ballistic Research Laboratories at the Aberdeen Proving Ground military facility in Maryland.
- He graduated from the United States Military Academy] at West Point in 1924.German Research discusses various German secret weapons of World War II, with an emphasis on airplanes, rocketry and the Germans' research methodology.
- It was first published in 1947.
- The book has become a collector's item in Europe since Hergé featured it in the storyline of The Adventures of Tintin comic The Calculus Affair, published in 1956, where it appears on page 23.
- The book is available, nevertheless, in various versions.
- Hergé censored the swastika, when he inserted that book.
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