Dirk Frimout belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Dirk Frimout as Belgian astronaut.
Dirk Frimout was born at Poperinge in 1941. His recorded nationality is Belgium. He was educated at Ghent University and University of Colorado.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Dirk Frimout is described as engineer, astronaut and astrophysicist.
His affiliations include Ghent University, Proximus Group and Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His work was formally recognised with the Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold and Honorary doctor of the University of Liège.
That the work was done from Belgium matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Dirk Frimout is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Ghent University, Proximus Group and Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
- Educated at Ghent University and University of Colorado
- Worked as engineer, astronaut and astrophysicist
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