USS Hyman G. Rickover SSN-709 was named in his honor.

Hyman G. Rickover : biography 27 January 1900 – 08 July 1986 As head of Naval Reactors, Rickover’s focus and responsibilities were dedicated to reactor safety rather than tactical or strategic submarine warfare training. This Los Angeles-Class nuclear submarine was commissioned July 21, 1984 and inactivated December 14, 2006. Inspector General, 19th Fleet, West Coast, 1945. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1922 and served on board USS LaVallette and USS Nevada until he returned to the Academy for postgraduate education in electrical engineering.. Rickover underwent submarine training between January and June 1930.

With the launching of the first of these submarines, the Nautilus, in 1954, he was dubbed “The Father of the Atomic Submarine.”As Admiral Rickover’s only child, that made me "The Atomic Submarine", and you can imagine what I now had to live up to. It could be argued that because of Rickover’s singular focus on reactor operations, and direct line of communications with each nuclear […] Hyman G. Rickover was born in Poland on 27 January 1900, just a few months before the American submarine force came into existence. Hyman G. Rickover : biography 27 January 1900 – 08 July 1986 Some of his Honorary degrees included: Sc.D. Today Admiral Hyman G. Rickover is best remembered for developing the atomic-powered submarine.