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James Edwin Gunn(July 12, 1923 – December 23, 2020) was an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work as an editor of anthologiesincludes the six-volume Road to Science Fictionseries.
Feb 11, 2021 · The science fiction writer and editor James E. Gunn in 2008, flanked by two magazines that published his earliest work. Richard Gwin/Lawrence Journal-World. By Sam Roberts. Published Feb. 11,...
Dec 23, 2020 · American science fiction author, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work from the 1960s and 70s is considered his most significant fiction, and his Road to Science Fiction collections are considered his most important scholarly books.
James Edward Gunn (born October 21, 1938) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. Gunn's early theoretical work in astronomy has helped establish the current understanding of how galaxies form, and the properties of the space between galaxies.
Gunn retired as Higgins Professor of Astronomy in 2011 but is currently working on the SuMIRe/PFS, a 2400-fiber faint-object spectrograph for the prime focus of the Subaru telescope.
Dec 23, 2020 · James E. Gunn, the golden age science fiction author, scholar and Hugo Award winner, has died. He was 97. Gunn died of natural causes Wednesday morning in Lawrence, Kansas, where for decades he...
James E. Gunn was awarded the National Medal of Science for his brilliant design of many of the most influential telescopes and instruments in astronomy, and in particular for the crucial role those technological marvels played in the creation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has cataloged 200 million stars, galaxies, and quasars ...
