Jerry Siebert

In 1958 Jerry Siebert ran on a Cal Berkeley relay team that broke the world record for 4×880y. In 1960 he again ran on a world-record setting 4×880 y relay team (with Ernie Cunliffe, Tom Murphy, and Jack Yerman), this team a US team that competed in a dual meet against the British Empire, although the US team did not win the race. The British Empire team was made of athletes from four different nations, so their mark could not be recognized for record purposes. Siebert was AAU 800 champion in 1962 and 1964. He was runner-up in the 1960 800 for Cal. He was later inducted into the Cal Berkeley Hall of Fame.

Siebert went on to receive a PhD in physics from Cal Berkeley in 1968, and then spent three years doing post-doctoral research at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He worked as a thin-film physicist at Bacharach Instrument Company and Varian Associates in California in the early 1970s, and was then with Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado from 1977-95, managing and contributing to cryogenically cooled instrumentation and setting up an integrated circuit fabrication facility.

Siebert was named Ball Aerospace “Engineer of the Year” in 1984 for his unique contributions to NASA’s Gravity Probe B space mission. After leaving Ball Aerospace he formed his own company, UniFilm Technology, which designed, fabricated, and sold custom high-value physical vapor deposition systems.

Personal Bests: 800 – 1:46.3y (1962); Mile – 4:12.4 (1960).