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Gerard K. O'Neill
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 c…
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science · American physicist, author, and inventor (1927–1992) · physicist · astronomer · university teacher · astrophysicist · also Gerard K. O'Neill, Gerard Kitchen O'Neill, Gerard O'Neill, O'Neill
Born 6 February 1927 · Died 27 April 1992 · Q538399
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2008· 2 entries
It was given to physicist John Marburger
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2007· 2 entries
On lunar entrepreneur and former astronaut Harrison Schmitt
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Magplane demonstrated a working magnetic pipeline system to transport phosphate ore in Florida
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1992· 2 entries
From complications of the disease at the Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California
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Died 1992-04-27.
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1991· 1 entry
O'Neill filed a patent application for a vactrain system
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1985· 2 entries
But remained associated with Princeton as professor emeritus until his death
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Raised this as high as $180 million per flight
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1983· 1 entry
O'Neill wrote about economic competition with Japan
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1981· 1 entry
The subsidized price given to commercial customers started at $38 million
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1978· 1 entry
Paul Werbos wrote for the L-5 newsletter, "no one expects Congress to commit us to O'Neill's concept of large-scale space habitats; people in NASA are almost paranoid about the public relations aspects of the idea"
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1977· 2 entries
O'Neill and his wife Tasha founded the Space Studies Institute, a non-profit organization, at Princeton University
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O'Neill saw the peak of interest in space colonization, along with the publication of his first book, The High Frontier
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1976· 2 entries
Also appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Aerospace Technology and National Needs
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Joined O'Neill's research group at Princeton
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1969· 1 entry
While he was teaching freshman physics at Princeton University
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1966· 1 entry
“to be alive now and not take part in it seemed terribly myopic”
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1965· 1 entry
At Stanford University, he performed the first colliding beam physics experiment
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1958· 1 entry
At the Stanford High-Energy Physics Laboratory
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1956· 2 entries
And was promoted to associate professor in 1959
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His second year of teaching, he published a two-page article that theorized that the particles produced by a particle accelerator could be stored for a few seconds in a storage ring
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1954· 1 entry
After he received his doctorate from Cornell University
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1946· 1 entry
O'Neill studied physics and mathematics at Swarthmore College
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1944· 1 entry
During World War II, and enlisted in the United States Navy on his 17th birthday
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1927· 2 entries
To Edward Gerard O'Neill, a lawyer, and Dorothy Lewis O'Neill (née Kitchen)
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Born 1927-02-06.
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