PersonGerard Kitchen O'Neill
Gerard K. O'Neill
An American physicist and professor at Princeton University, known for proposing the O'Neill Cylinder space habitat concept and for authoring The High Frontier. He is regarded as a pioneering thinker in the field of space colonization.
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Oct 4
The O'Neill cylinder was proposed by Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in 1974 in Physics Today.
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