# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-k-o-neill
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:41:12.976Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-k-o-neill"
name: "Gerard K. O'Neill"
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description: "Gerard Kitchen O'Neill was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. In the 1970s, he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder. He founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to funding research into space manufacturing and colonization."
tagline: "American physicist and futurologist (1927–1992)"
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birthDate: "1927-02-06"
deathDate: "1992-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump