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John R. Pierce. John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. [1] Additionally to his professional career he wrote science fiction for many years using the names John ...
- March 27, 1910, Des Moines, Iowa, US
- April 2, 2002 (aged 92), Sunnyvale, California, US
JOHN R. PIERCE (1910-2002) INTERVIEWED BY HARRIETT LYLE April 16, 23, and 27, 1979 ARCHIVES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Pasadena, California Subject area Engineering, electrical Abstract An interview in three sessions in April 1979 with John R. Pierce, often referred to as the father of the communications satellite. A leading applied ...
JOHN R. PIERCE 1910 –2002. BY EDWARD E. DAVID. JOHN PIERCE, the “father” of modern communication satellites, died in April 2002. Three of his former colleagues wrote the following: “Above all, John Pierce was a man of strict integrity. He knew the difference between speculation, wishful thinking, and factual evidence.
John R. Pierce returned to Norfolk 27 February 1965. She reported to Commandant of the 3d Naval District in Brooklyn, N.Y., for duty as a reserve training ship and began a schedule of 2-week training cruises for naval reservists. She continued this duty into 1967. John R. Pierce received one battle star for service during the Korean War.
Mar 15, 1976 · Among his peers, John R. Pierce is properly appreciated as a creator of complex engineering realities from the most basic of scientific insights. To those of...
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During the 1950s, Pierce proposed the foundations for unmanned passive and active communication satellites. Though his ideas were initially resisted, Pierce was able to persuade NASA in 1960 to build and launch Echo. Echo was essentially a large aluminum sphere about 100 feet in diameter that acted like a mirror in space, bouncing rad ...
In April of 2002, the engineering world lost one of its great visionaries. John Robinson Pierce, whose career spanned six decades, was at one time one of the best known figures in the engineering field. He became famous not only for his considerable technical accomplishments, but as a popularizer of scientific knowledge in the media and through his own voluminous publications. In 1992, when he ...
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