The many documents show how well O’Neill organized his professional career from its beginnings and how it arced from earnest student to Princeton physicist to astronaut hopeful and ultimately to futuristic space prophet. The collection consists of O’Neill’s professional papers, his many publications and reports, personal papers, images (not necessarily personal photographs - many of his images are slides he made of his physics talks and lectures), and odd/oversized items. From his undergraduate days in the 1940s ( one 1949 section of his papers is titled “Gadgetry” and comprises Box 56, Folder 8) to the conclusion of his life in 1992, the archives frequently fill in the many gaps left by his all-too-early passing. O’Neill Collection - all 26.22 cubic feet, 75 boxes, and 35.14 linear feet - is now available digitally via the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum archives. O’Neill, the life and work of the legendary Princeton physicist and space advocate had lapsed into obscurity 30 years following his premature death from leukemia. O’Neill written by Dylan Taylor with John Desimone and the documentary The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. Save for the recent book Humanizing Space: The Life of Gerard K. Photo credit: Princeton University/O’Neill estate
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