" The family name " Rickover " is derived from the village and the estate of Ryki, located within an hour of Warsaw, as is Maków Mazowiecki.

" " If a man is dumb ," said a Chicago friend, " Rickover thinks he ought to be dead.

Recognizing " that nurturing careers of excellence and leadership in science and technology in young scholars is an essential investment in the United States national and global future ," following his retirement Admiral Rickover founded the Center for Excellence in Education in 1983.

Additionally, the Research Science Institute ( formerly the Rickover Science Institute ), founded by Admiral Rickover in 1984, is a highly respected summer science program hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for aspiring high school seniors from around the world.

The surname of Hyman G. Rickover, a US Navy Admiral and considered the Father of the Nuclear Navy, is derived from Ryki.

Rickover in 1984 ( and originally called the " Rickover Science Institute " through the 1986 session ), it is now run by a close associate of his, CEE president Joann P. DiGennaro.

In addition to his World War I career, Bauer is well known as the author of the book Das Unterseeboot, a treatise on the design and operation of U-boats, which was later translated into English by Hyman G. Rickover.

Later, Monk and Natalie watch the videotape, which reveals that Trudy had a child with her professor, Ethan Rickover, who is now a judge.

Then, Monk learns that, in fact, Rickover had saved the baby girl who is now a 26-year-old movie critic named Molly who he re-connects with and grows to love.

Even the most senior, renowned and professionally-accomplished nuclear-trained officers that Rickover had personally selected, such as Edward L. Beach, Jr., had mixed feelings about " the kindly old gentleman ," or simply " KOG ", as Rickover became euphemistically known in inner circles.

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, ( 1900 – 1986 ), of the United States Navy, known as " father of the nuclear navy " was an electrical engineer by training, and was the primary architect who implemented this daring concept, and believed that it was the natural next phase for the way military vessels could be propelled and powered.

* 1976: Hyman G. Rickover, USN, Father of the Nuclear Navy

Nimitz immediately understood the potential of nuclear propulsion and recommended the project to the Secretary of the Navy, John L. Sullivan, whose endorsement to build the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, USS Nautilus ( SSN-571 ), later caused Rickover to state that Sullivan was " the true father of the Nuclear Navy.

Subsequently, Rickover became chief of a new section in the Bureau of Ships, the Nuclear Power Division, and began work with Alvin M. Weinberg, the Oak Ridge director of research, both to establish the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology and to begin the design of the pressurized water reactor for submarine propulsion.

Nimitz immediately understood the potential of nuclear propulsion and recommended the project to Sullivan, whose endorsement to build the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, USS Nautilus ( SSN-571 ), later caused Rickover to state that Sullivan was " the true father of the Nuclear Navy.

Only four people have ever been awarded two or more gold medals: Winfield Scott ( 1814 for War of 1812 and 1848 for Mexican – American War ), Zachary Taylor ( 1846, 1847, and 1848 for Mexican-American War ), Lincoln Ellsworth ( 1928 and 1936 for polar exploration ), and Hyman G. Rickover ( 1958 for the " Nuclear Navy " and 1982 for his entire career ).

Hyman George Rickover ( January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986 ) was a four-star admiral of the United States Navy who directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of Naval Reactors.

During 1933, while at the Office of the Inspector of Naval Material in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rickover translated Das Unterseeboot ( The Submarine ) by World War I German Imperial Navy Admiral Hermann Bauer.

He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, expecting to be transferred shortly to the Bureau of Engineering in Washington D. C. After a trip overland across China, Burma, and India, by air across the Mideast to Athens and then London, and by ship to the U. S., Rickover arrived in Washington and took up his duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering on 15 August 1939.

Realizing the potential that nuclear energy held for the Navy, Rickover applied.

According to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project, Mills was anxious to have a very determined man involved, and – though he knew that Rickover was " not too easy to get along with " and " not too popular " – in his judgment Rickover was the man who the Navy could depend on " no matter what opposition he might encounter, once he was convinced of the potentialities of the atomic submarine.

Promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral in 1958, the same year he was awarded the first of two Congressional Gold Medals, for nearly the next three decades Rickover exercised tight control over the ships, technology, and personnel of the nuclear Navy, interviewing and approving or denying every prospective officer being considered for a nuclear ship.

During the mid-late 1950s, Rickover revealed the source of his obsession with safety in a personal conversation with a fellow Navy captain:

It eventually took the intervention of the White House, U. S. Congress and the Secretary of the Navy — and the very real threat of changing the Navy's admiral-selection system to include civilians — before the next flag-selection board welcomed the twice passed-over Rickover ( normally a career-ending event ) into their ranks.

But on January 31, 1982, in his 80's, and after 63 years of service to his country under 13 presidents ( Woodrow Wilson through Ronald Reagan ), Rickover was forced to retire from the Navy as a full admiral by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, with the knowledge and consent of President Reagan.

While the yard tried to pass the vast cost overruns directly onto the Navy, Rickover fought Electric Boat's general manager, P. Takis Veliotis, tooth and nail at every possible turn, demanding that the yard make good on its shoddy workmanship.

Although the Navy eventually settled with General Dynamics in 1981, paying out $ 634 million of $ 843 million in Los Angeles class submarine cost-overrun and reconstruction claims, Rickover was bitter over the yard having effectively and successfully sued the Navy for its own incompetence and deceit.

Outraged, Rickover furiously lambasted both the settlement and Secretary Lehman, who was partly motivated to seek an agreement in order to continue to focus on achieving President Reagan's goal of a 600-ship Navy.

He supported the touchy Adm. Hyman Rickover in the development of a nuclear Navy.

He was then offered the job in the immediate staff of Captain Rickover working on the design of the nuclear reactor for the Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine of the U. S. Navy.

While attending John Marshall High School in Chicago, from where he graduated with honors in 1918, Rickover held a full-time job delivering Western Union telegrams, through which he became acquainted with U. S. Congressman Adolph J. Sabath.

He entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1918, and eventually graduated 48th out of 539 in the class of 1922, in which Hyman G. Rickover graduated 107th.

Fleeing anti-Semitic Russian pogroms, Rickover, his mother and sister ( Americanized: " Fannie ") made passage to New York City in the United States in March 1906, joining Abraham who had made earlier, initial trips there beginning in 1897 to become established.

Rickover had been promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 January 1942, and in late June of that year had been made a Temporary Captain.

Since December 1945 Rickover had been Inspector General of the 19th Fleet on the US West Coast.

He had been assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York State, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers, but in May 1946, through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year, Rickover was finally sent to Oak Ridge as the deputy manager of the entire project, granting him access to all facilities, projects and reports.

" Subsequently, Admiral Rickover was asked to testify before Congress in the general context of answering the question as to why naval nuclear propulsion had succeeded in achieving a record of zero reactor-accidents ( as defined by the uncontrolled release of fission products to the environment resulting from damage to a reactor core ) as opposed to the dramatic one that had just taken place at Three Mile Island.

When all seemed lost Scott stood to leave but Rickover told him to wait, saying that he had only been testing his confidence, and whether he would be true to what he believed, since this would be a difficult project.

On his second return from Argentina, Scott joined other former Rickover staffers who had a consulting firm in nuclear engineering, working out of Washington, D. C ..

Another son, Richard Correll also became an actor, best remembered as Richard Rickover on Leave It To Beaver and also produced and directed the TV sitcom Family Matters.

Admiral Rickover looking over USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.

In 1947, then-Captain Hyman G. Rickover went around his chain-of-command and directly to the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, by chance also a former submariner, to pitch his ideas for creating a nuclear-powered warship.

However, Bucher was a conventional submariner not trained in nuclear power, and his career options became limited when the submarine force became increasingly populated by nuclear-powered submarines and nuclear-trained submarine officers effectively hand-picked by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover in the 1960s.

Perhaps the most well-known was the building of the prototype reactor for the world ’ s first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, ordered by Adm. Hyman Rickover.