- Graduated from U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, June 1922, 107th out of 540 Midshipmen; commissioned an Ensign.
- Earned Master of Science (M.Sc.) in electrical engineering at Naval Postgraduate School, U.S. Naval Academy and at Columbia University School of Engineering, 1928.
- Captain, Minesweeper Finch at Tsingtao, China and Commander, Mine Division Three, Asiatic Fleet, 1937.
- Division of Reactor Development, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and Director, Naval Reactors Branch, U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, 1949.
- Buried in Section 5, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
- Assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York, to develop nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers. Sent to Oak Ridge, Tennessee as Deputy Manager of the project, May 1946.
- Assistant Chief of Electrical Section, Bureau of Engineering, Washington, D.C., 1939.
- Organized repairs to electrical power plant of USS California, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 1942.
- Appointed to command ship repair facility on Okinawa, July 1945.
- Promoted to Vice Admiral, 1958.
- Head of Electrical Section, Bureau of Ships during World War II.
- Submarine training, 1930.
- Retired from Navy as full Admiral, January 19, 1982.
- USS Hyman G. Rickover SSN-709 was named in his honor. This Los Angeles-Class nuclear submarine was commissioned July 21, 1984 and inactivated December 14, 2006.
- Inspector General, 19th Fleet, West Coast, 1945.
- Promoted to Engineer Officer, June 1923.
- Promoted to Commander, January 1, 1942.
- Chief of new section in Bureau of Ships, Nuclear Power Division.
- Promoted to Lieutenant Commander, retroactive to July 1, 1937.
- Submarine duty and command aboard Submarines S-9 and S-48, 1929-1933.
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