George A. Greene, 94, a mechanical engineer who pioneered semiconductor and biotechnology facility clean room and related facility design, died on Jan. 4 in Los Osos, Calif., his family confirmed to ENR on Mar 14. Green also launched a highly successful consulting firm later sold to Ireland's largest engineer and project manager.
Lockheed Aircraft hired Greene to design the high-bay clean room at its new campus in Sunnyvale, Calif., in 1957, one month after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1 satellite, with the facility becoming the main assembly area for company satellites for both military and civilian clients during the Cold War, according to a family-provided obituary.
