Gerald Howard Goertzel (18 August 1919 – 17 July 2002) was an American theoretical physicist.
[1] He worked on the Manhattan Project for the Nuclear Development Corporation of America[2] and later for Sage Instruments.
He was an employee of IBM's Research Division where he worked for 28 years in a variety of areas, including design automation, data compression and digital printing technology.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and subsequently gained a Master of Science degree in Physics from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
He was awarded a PhD in Theoretical Physics from New York University.