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Donald Dale Jackson is a freelance writer in Newtown, Connecticut. His books include Gold Dust (Knopf, 1980). More >>
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Shirley Ann Jackson is a physicist and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological research university in the U.S. A frequent speaker and advocate, Dr. More >> |
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Kirk Jeffrey is a professor of history at Carleton College in Northfteld, Minnesota.
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Ann Jensen is a free-lance writer living in Annapolis, Maryland, who specializes in maritime subjects. More >>
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Richard R. John is a historian of communications who currently teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. More >>
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Richard A. Johnson is the author of Six Men Who Built the Modern Auto Industry (2005), published by Motorbooks. More >>
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Stephen Joiner writes about aviation from his home in Southern California. More >>
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Dr. Thomas D. Jones is a scientist, author, pilot, and former NASA astronaut. He holds a doctorate in planetary sciences, and in more than eleven years with NASA, flew on four space shuttle missions to Earth orbit. On his last flight, Dr. More >>
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Loyd S. More >>
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Edwin T. Layton, Jr. (1929-2009) was president of the Society for the History of Technology and a professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota from 1975 until his retirement in 1998. More >>
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William Worthington, Jr., a specialist in engineering and industry at the National Museum of American History, wrote about the early history of escalators in our Winter 1989 issue. More >>
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Elmer L. Gaden, Jr. (1924-2012) was the Wills Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. Gaden was founder of the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Journal, which he edited until 1983.
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Sebastian Junger is an author, journalist and documentarian, most famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the 2010 movie Restrepo, and his 2 More >>
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