Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (1927 - 1992)

Born 6 Feb 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

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Died 27 Apr 1992 at age 65 in Redwood City, California, USA

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Biography

Gerard O'Neill is Notable.

Gerard was born in 1927. He passed away in 1992.^[1]

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.

He married Sylvia Turlington in 1950. They had three children but the marriage ended in divorce in 1966. While cross-country gliding in 1973, he met Tasha Steffen and they were married. They had one child.

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1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183757121/gerard-kitchen-oneill

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