Dan Alderson
American scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1941 to 1989 · aged 47
Daniel John Alderson was a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and a prominent participant in science fiction fandom. He came from a middle-class family and had diabetes.
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A high school science fair project on the gravitational fields of non-spherical bodies won him a college scholarship to Caltech and a job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he wrote the software used to navigate Voyagers 1 and 2.
Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1941 to 1989 · aged 47
