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Raymond Friedman
Dr. Raymond Friedman has degrees in engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of Wisconsin. He has had a successful career in industrial research and its management at Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Atlantic Research Corporation, and Factory Mutual Research Corporation, where he was vice president in charge of its Research Division. His specialties include combustion in jet aircraft and solid-propellant rockets, fire suppression techniques, and stabilization of capacitors in radar circuits.
He has published three Earlier book and numerous research papers. He was president of the Combustion Institute, chairman of the American Chemical Society Division of Fuel Chemistry, and North American vice chairman of the International Association for Fire Safety Science. He has served as a consultant to the President's Science Advisory Committee, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Academy of Sciences.
His broad background in technology places him in a good position to present his views on where rational thinking and future scientific developments are taking us.
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After scoffing at attempts by astrologers, prophets, oracles, and assorted psychics to make predictions, the author describes how the "age of reason", starting in the seventeenth century, led to a scientific basis for new developments. The role of science fiction as a precursor of major advances is discussed. |
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