warfare. He then moved to California in 1946, joining the Division of Engineering Mechanics at Stanford University, where he continued his work on ship stabilization. The 5-ton model was moved from the David Taylor Model Basin to Stanford where it was dubbed the "USS Minorsky". Full-scale testing of active ship stabilization system resumed, this time on board the .

In her memorial paper to Nicolas Minorsky published in the IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control, author Irmgard Flügge-Lotz