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Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) 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. [1] Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. [2]
Gerard K. O’Neill (born Feb. 6, 1927, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died April 27, 1992, Redwood, Calif.) was an American physicist who invented the colliding-beam storage ring and was a leading advocate of space colonization.
As an experimental physicist, he invented and developed the technology of storage rings that is now the basis of all highenergy particle accelerators. As a teacher and writer, he explored the possibilities of human settlement and industrial development on the Moon and in orbiting space colonies.
An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. O'Neill proposed the colonization of space for the 21st century, using materials extracted from the Moon and later from asteroids .
Dec 29, 2022 · O’Neill the Entrepreneur. Outside of the academy, Gerard K. O’Neill utilized his scientific endeavors from the realm of space in various business enterprises. In the early 1980s, he founded the Geostar Corporation to create a satellite position determination system for tracking aircraft.
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space is a 1976 book by Gerard K. O'Neill, a road map for what the United States might do in outer space after the Apollo program, the drive to place a human on the Moon and beyond.
Apr 16, 2021 · A new documentary explores the life and work of Princeton physics professor and visionary Gerard O’Neill, who sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space.
