Robert Rines was born on August 30, 1922 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA as Robert Harvey Rines. He was married to Joanne Hayes, Carol Williamson and Dorothy Kay. He died on November 1, 2009 in Boston.
They can call me crazy, and that's okay by me. At least I won't to jail for it like Galileo.
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I don't care what anybody thinks, you have to find out what that was.
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Fact
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Son of David Hines, a patent lawyer.
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He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1942 with a Bachelor's Degree; earned his law degree from Georgetown University in 1947; and earned his Doctorate from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in 1972.
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He is survived by his wife, Joanne Hayes Rines; his sons Justice and Robert Rines; and his daughter Suzi Rines Toth; stepdaughter Laura Hayes-Heur, and four grandchildren.
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He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge; Harvard University in Cambridge; and the Franklin Pierce College.
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Holder of more than 80 patents in technology that has been used to locate enemy submarines and sunken shipwrecks such as the ocean liner Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck, to guide Patriot missiles during the 1991 Gulf War, to create early-warning missile-detection systems, and to provide ultrasound imaging of internal organs.
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Producer of a ballet called "Life at MIT," and composer of music for more than 10 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows; he collaborated on the music for the Emmy Award-winning television, and later Broadway, production of "Hizzoner--The Mayor," about New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
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His classes in physics and engineering at MIT were difficult, so Rines wanted to transfer to Harvard, which led to clashing horns with his father. Rines stopped going to class and flunked out. His father threw him out of the house, and then helped him to find a janitorial job at MIT. Rines took the point and "became ashamed for not going to my classes, so I went back to summer school [and] made up the courses." In 1942, he graduated from MIT, at the top of his class, with a B.S. degree in physics.
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In 1970, Rines headed a group funded by the Academy of Applied Science to search for the Loch Ness Monster. He did not prove the existence of Nessie, but his investigations at the Scottish lake have led to the discoveries of the remains of a British Wellington bomber lost during World War II, a series of underwater caves, previously unknown microbial life forms, and 12,000-year-old fossilized marine clams that indicate the loch's connection to the ocean in recent geological times.
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Founder of the Franklin Pierce Law Center, one of the top law schools in the U.S.
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Named his son Justice because he felt it was the only way he would see continuous justice in the U.S.
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Contributed to the technology of high-resolution image-scanning radar and sonar.
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Inventor in the field of high-resolution image-scanning radar and sonar.
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Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1994.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Loch Ness Monster Revealed
2009
TV Movie documentary archive source: Rines & Rines - as Dr. Robert Rines
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nova
TV Series documentary acknowledgment - 1 episode, 1998 special thanks - 1 episode, 1998
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Monsterquest
2008
TV Series documentary
Himself - Eyewitness
Deep Sea Detectives
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
The World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed
1998
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nova
1998
TV Series documentary
Expedition Leader
Mysterious World
1980
TV Series documentary
Himself
In Search of...
1977
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1976
TV Series
Himself - Inventor
The Mysterious Monsters
1975
Documentary
Himself
Monsters! Mysteries or Myths?
1974
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mysterious Britain
1997
Documentary
Himself (as Dr Robert Rines)
Known for movies
The Mysterious Monsters (1975) as Himself
The World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed (1998) as Himself - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$400,000
