Gerard K. O'Neill
American physicist and futurologist (1927-1992) · United States · Scientists · Died at 65
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Something wrong?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.
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NASA envisioned an ambitious scientific exploration of the Moon.
Bernal sphere, an "inside-out planet"
Diagram of the Lagrange points in the Earth-Moon system
O'Neill testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on January 19, 1976
Kolm (left) and O'Neill (center) with a mass driver
O'Neill cylinders as illustrated in The High Frontier
Design for the satellite position determination systemScientists from the United States 6
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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.
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