Charles
Franklin Kettering was born on August 29, 1876, in Loudenville,
Ohio. In April 1948, he applied for a job with the Atomic
Energy Commission. He invented the automobile self starter
and worked for General Motors. He along with his General
Motor's boss, Alfred P. Sloan, founded the famous Sloan-Kettering
Institute for Cancer Research. Mr. Kettering died on
November 25, 1958, after a stroke in Kettering, Ohio.
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