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Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1994.

Inventor in the field of high-resolution image-scanning radar and sonar.

Contributed to the technology of high-resolution image-scanning radar and sonar.

Named his son Justice because he felt it was the only way he would see continuous justice in the U.S.

Founder of the Franklin Pierce Law Center, one of the top law schools in the U.S.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge; Harvard University in Cambridge; and the Franklin Pierce College.

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.

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.

Son of David Hines, a patent lawyer.