- Date Of Birth: June 22, 1957
- Date Of Death: November 27, 2020
- State: Indiana
Gregory “Greg” Wayne Carpenter, MD passed away on Nov. 27, 2020, at his home in Terre Haute, from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Greg was born June 22, 1957, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to Donald J. and Elise A. Carpenter. Greg received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1980. After graduating, he took a position with Rockwell International where he worked on Shuttle Orbiter Simulations (primarily ascent abort), B1 and B1-B bomber control system interface design. While in California he lived on the beach in Dana Point and was also a co-owner of an avocado tree farm. While working at Rockwell, Rockwell was awarded a patent for Greg’s inventive work related to the digital transfer of information through fiber optics in the control systems on the B1-B bomber. Greg left Rockwell in 1989 and entered graduate school at the University of California at Irvine in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry intent on pursuing a new career to become a medical doctor. He taught microbiology and biochemistry lab courses while at UCI and received his biology degree in 1992.
