Введение
Офицер ВВС США Фредерик Карл Бок-младший (18 января 1918 – 25 августа 2000) был американским пилотом-бомбардировщиком во время Второй мировой войны, участвовавшим в атомной бомбардировке Нагасаки в 1945 году. Бок учился в Чикагском университете и затем поступил в аспирантуру на философское отделение. Бомбардировщик, сбросивший "Толстяка", назывался Bockscar – самолет, названный в честь Бока и обычно пилотируемый им. Непосредственно перед вылетом экипаж был заменен, и майор Чарльз Суини пилотировал Bockscar, летевший в сопровождении самолетов "The Great Artiste" и еще одного. Уильям Л. Лоуренс, научный обозреватель газеты New York Times, был гражданским наблюдателем на борту "The Great Artiste". Его репортаж о миссии был удостоен Пулитцеровской премии 1946 года. В своей книге "Рассвет над нулем" (Knopf, 1946) Лоуренс описывает обстановку на борту B-29:
Frederick Carl Bock Jr (January 18, 1918 – August 25, 2000) was an American bomber pilot during World War II who took part in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Bock attended the University of Chicago and went on to enroll in a graduate course in philosophy. The bomber which actually dropped Fat Man was called Bockscar, an aircraft named for and usually flown by Bock. The staff was swapped just before the raid, and Major Charles Sweeney piloted Bockscar, which flew with The Great Artiste and another aircraft. William L. Laurence, a science writer with the New York Times, was a civilian observer aboard The Great Artiste. His account of the mission was awarded the 1946 Pulitzer Prize. In his book, Dawn Over Zero (Knopf 1946), Laurence describes the scene aboard the B 29:
text=I watched Capt. Frederick C. Bock, the pilot of our ship, go through the intricate motions of lifting a B 29 off the ground and marveled at the quiet efficiency of this Michigan boy who had majored in philosophy at Chicago University I talked to him on the ground and I was amazed at the transformation that had taken place. Man and machine had become one, a modern centaur.|sign=William L. Laurence|source=Dawn Over Zero (1946)
Bock rose to the rank of major and received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
text=Я наблюдал, как капитан Фредерик К. Бок, пилот нашего самолета, выполнял сложные действия по взлету B-29 и был поражен тихой эффективностью этого юноши из Мичигана, который изучал философию в Чикагском университете. Я поговорил с ним на земле и был поражен произошедшей трансформацией. Человек и машина стали единым целым, современным кентавром.|sign=William L. Laurence|source=Dawn Over Zero (1946)
Frederick Carl Bock Jr (January 18, 1918 – August 25, 2000) was an American bomber pilot during World War II who took part in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Bock attended the University of Chicago and went on to enroll in a graduate course in philosophy. The bomber which actually dropped Fat Man was called Bockscar, an aircraft named for and usually flown by Bock. The staff was swapped just before the raid, and Major Charles Sweeney piloted Bockscar, which flew with The Great Artiste and another aircraft. William L. Laurence, a science writer with the New York Times, was a civilian observer aboard The Great Artiste. His account of the mission was awarded the 1946 Pulitzer Prize. In his book, Dawn Over Zero (Knopf 1946), Laurence describes the scene aboard the B 29:
text=I watched Capt. Frederick C. Bock, the pilot of our ship, go through the intricate motions of lifting a B 29 off the ground and marveled at the quiet efficiency of this Michigan boy who had majored in philosophy at Chicago University I talked to him on the ground and I was amazed at the transformation that had taken place. Man and machine had become one, a modern centaur.|sign=William L. Laurence|source=Dawn Over Zero (1946)
Bock rose to the rank of major and received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
Бок дослужился до звания майора и был награжден Distinguished Flying Cross и Air Medal.
Frederick Carl Bock Jr (January 18, 1918 – August 25, 2000) was an American bomber pilot during World War II who took part in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Bock attended the University of Chicago and went on to enroll in a graduate course in philosophy. The bomber which actually dropped Fat Man was called Bockscar, an aircraft named for and usually flown by Bock. The staff was swapped just before the raid, and Major Charles Sweeney piloted Bockscar, which flew with The Great Artiste and another aircraft. William L. Laurence, a science writer with the New York Times, was a civilian observer aboard The Great Artiste. His account of the mission was awarded the 1946 Pulitzer Prize. In his book, Dawn Over Zero (Knopf 1946), Laurence describes the scene aboard the B 29:
text=I watched Capt. Frederick C. Bock, the pilot of our ship, go through the intricate motions of lifting a B 29 off the ground and marveled at the quiet efficiency of this Michigan boy who had majored in philosophy at Chicago University I talked to him on the ground and I was amazed at the transformation that had taken place. Man and machine had become one, a modern centaur.|sign=William L. Laurence|source=Dawn Over Zero (1946)
Bock rose to the rank of major and received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
Послевоенная карьера
После войны Бок вернулся в Чикаго, где получил степень доктора философии в области зоологии со специализацией в математической статистике и генетике. Работая в исследовательских лабораториях Чикаго, доктор Бок разработал алгоритмы для решения сложных проблем. В лабораториях Baxter Travenol он создал математическую модель перитонеального диализа. Доктор Бок вышел на пенсию из Baxter Travenol в 1986 году. Родился в Гринвилле, штат Мичиган, и умер в своем доме в Аризоне в 2000 году от рака.