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.
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- Born in
- Brooklyn
- Educated at
- Cornell UniversitySwarthmore College
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Trending topics shown first"There's no point in going out into space if the future that we'll see there is a sterile future living in tin cans. We have to able to recreate in space habitats which are as beautiful as earth-like a…"
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1927
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