HJR34 Summary

• Alabama legislature mourns the death of Dr. Julian Davidson of Huntsville, who died January 31, 2013

• Dr. Davidson was a space and missile defense pioneer with a nearly 60-year career, including roles as Deputy Program Manager of Ballistic Missile Defense for the U.S. Army and first director of the Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency

• Founder of Davidson Technologies (established 1996) and benefactor of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Davidson Center for Space Exploration, to which he and his wife Dorothy donated $2 million toward the 68,000 square-foot, $22 million facility that opened in 2008 and houses a restored Saturn V rocket

• The Davidsons also contributed $2 million toward construction of the Davidson Center for the Arts at the Huntsville Museum of Art

• Resolution extends deepest sympathies to his surviving family: wife Dorothy, four children, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren