On September 21, 2002 one of the most endeared members of the scientific community and perhaps the most well known scientist and theorist among those interested in high energy propulsion, Robert L. Forward, died of brain cancer at age 70. He was perhaps most well known to the public as a science fiction writer, whose books portrayed a type of fiction very true to current scientific understanding. In 1995 he wrote the novel, Indistinguishable from Magic, in which he described anti matter star ships, antigravity machines and space warps. His novel, Rocheworld described what it would be like to be on a laser-pushed interstellar light sail. He was well known for his pioneering work on solar sails, antimatter propulsion and Space Tethers. He once noted to me in an email correspondence that he was probably the first one to envision a laser pushed light sail.Appropriately he was a consultant for NASA in high energy propulsion concepts. I had the honor of meeting him at the Joint Propulsion Conference in Salt Lake City in 2001. I have to wonder if he ever did take off that silly confetti vest, which he was famous for. Bob prepared this obituary before he died:
Robert Lull Forward The intelligent pattern of protoplasm that had been Robert L. Forward ceased coherent operation on September 21, 2002.
Robert Lull Forward died at home of brain cancer at the age of 70. Forward was born 15 August 1932 in Geneva, New York. After graduation from the University of Maryland in 1954 with a BS degree in Physics and a Second Lieutenant commission in the Air Force, he married Martha Neil Dodson and served two years stateside during the closing years of the Korean War. Upon leaving the service Forward was awarded a Hughes Aircraft Company Graduate Research Fellowship, which he used to obtain a MS in Applied Physics from UCLA in 1958 and a PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland in 1965. Forward was one of the early pioneers in the field of experimental gravitational radiation astronomy. For his PhD thesis he built and operated the first bar antenna for the detection of gravitational radiation under the direction of Profs. Weber and Zipoy. The antenna is now in the Smithsonian Museum.
Forward worked for 31 years at the Hughes Aircraft Company Corporate Research Laboratories in Malibu, CA in positions of increasing responsibility until he took early retirement in 1987 to spend more time on writing novels and his aerospace consulting company business - Forward Unlimited . During his tenure at Hughes, he received 18 patents, and published numerous papers on experimental gravity instruments and measurements, including the first paper on using the normal modes of the Earth to set an upper limit on interstellar millicycle gravitational radiation; a paper on the details of the wideband "chirp" signal to be expected from the gravitational collapse of a binary neutron star pair; and a method for "flattening" spacetime over a hatbox-sized region in an orbiting microgravity space lab to the picogravity level. Cont. . .
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