Donald G. Carpenter
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| Donald Gilbert Carpenter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 May 1927 Albany Co., New York |
| Died | 27 March 2011 (83) Bexar Co., Texas |
| Burial | Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Col. |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland (B.S., 1950, Physics); Air Force Institute of Technology (M.S., 1960, Nuclear Engineering); Iowa State University (Ph.D., 1962, Nuclear Engineering) |
| Workplace(s) | United States Air Force (1950-7?); USAF Academy (1962-67); Colorado Tech., Electrical Eng. Dept. (1990-199?) |
Donald Gilbert Carpenter (May 23, 1927 - March 27, 2011) was an American nuclear physicist and decorated United States Air Force officer who worked under the Aerospace Defense Command on the U.S. satellite tracking program SPACETRACK, which included a command posting with the 16th Surveillance Squadron at Shemya AFB, Alaska. Carpenter also pursued interests in gerontology, ghostology, and ufology; the latter interest was expressed in his authorship of a controversial chapter, "Unidentified Flying Objects," in a USAF Academy physics textbook Introductory Space Science (reprinted as Environmental Space Sciences in 1972).
Selected Bibliography
- Carpenter, Donald G. (1960), Thesis: Earth's Geomagnetically Trapped Corpuscular Radiation, Dayton, OH: Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University
- Carpenter, Donald G. (1962), Dissertation: Plasma Theory Applied to Ball Lightning, Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/736034b3-3be0-4a8d-9201-dfd969aca84a — re: Ball lightning
- Carpenter, Donald G. (Apr. 1965), "Diffusion Theory of Aging", Journal of Gerontology 20 (2): 191-195, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronj/20.2.191
- Carpenter, Donald G.; Loynd, James A. (Dec. 1968), "An Integrated Theory of Aging", Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 16 (12): 1307-1322
- Carpenter, Donald G.; Wrobel, John E., Jr. (Dec. 1969), "Is Biological Aging Inevitable?", Analog Science Fiction Science Fact
- Carpenter, Donald G.; Therkelson, Edward R., eds. (1968), "Unidentified Flying Objects", Introductory Space Science, II, Colorado Springs, Colo.: Department of Physics, United States Air Force Academy — https://web.archive.org/web/20010827112708/https://www.beyondweird.com/chapter13.html
- Carpenter, Donald G., ed. (1972), Environmental Space Sciences, Northbrook, Ill.: Whitehall
- Carpenter, Donald G. (Oct. 1980), "The Physics of Haunting", Analog C: 44-53
- Carpenter, D. (1984), "Weighing the Soul at Death: Some Methodological and Theoretical Considerations", Theta, Journal of the Psychical Research Foundation 12 (1): 14-16
- Carpenter, Donald Gilbert (1998), Physically Weighing the Soul
Novels
- Merlino, Merlin Mesmer (1973), The Treacherous Time Machine, New York: Vantage Press
Reading
- Collins, Curt (23 Feb. 2022), UFOs, Aliens, & U.S. Air Force Academy Textbooks, thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com, https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/02/ufos-aliens-us-air-force-academy.html