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Robert G. Jahn, Ph.D. (born April 1, 1930) is a retired American plasma physicist, Professor of Aerospace Science, and Dean of Engineering at Princeton University. Jahn was also a founder of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR), a parapsychology research program which ran from 1979 to 2007. ==Career== Jahn holds a B.S.E. degree in Engineering Physics (1951), a M.A. Degree in Physics (1953), and a Ph.D. degree in Physics (1955), all from Princeton University, and has held faculty positions in Physics Department at Lehigh University, at the California Institute of Technology, and, since 1962, at Princeton.〔Jaques Cattell. (1960). ''American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory''. Bowker. p. 1977〕 During his career, Jahn worked on electrically powered spacecraft propulsion and directed several major research programs in advanced aerospace propulsion systems, in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force. In 1961, he founded the Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton and directed it for more than three decades.〔Barnes Warnock McCormick, Conrad F. Newberry, Eric Jumper. (2004). ''Aerospace Engineering Education During the First Century of Flight''. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. p. 533〕 He served as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton from 1971 - 1986. Jahn is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home : The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics )〕 and was Chairman of its Electric Propulsion Technical Committee. He is a member of the NASA Space Science and Technology Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Hercules Inc. from 1985 to 2001 where he served as Chairman of its Technology Committee. He also served on the Emergency Committee, the Nominating Committee, and the Social Responsibility Committee. He resigned from the Hercules Inc. board in 2001 at the age of 70. Jahn is currently Chairman of the Elwing company which manufactures propulsion systems for satellites. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert G. Jahn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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