title: Upper Atmosphere Research Panel
text: # Upper Atmosphere Research Panel
  
  The Upper Atmosphere Research Panel, also known as the V-2 Panel, was formed in 1946 to oversee experiments conducted using V-2 rockets brought to the United States after World War II. The experiments studied the upper atmosphere, solar radiation and X-ray astronomy, as well as the technology of the V-2 rocket.
  
  ## Members
  
  An organizing meeting was held at Princeton University 27 Feb 1946.
  
  The original committee members were:
  
  * Ernst Henry Krause, Naval Research Laboratory
  * G. K. Megerian (secretary), General Electric Co.
  * W. G. Dow, University of Michigan
  * M. J. E. Golay, U.S. Army Signal Corps
  * C. F. Green, General Electric Co.
  * K. H. Kingdon, General Electric Co.
  * M. H. Nichols, Princeton University
  * James Van Allen, Johns Hopkins University
  * Fred Lawrence Whipple, Harvard University
  