Penulis: Warren David Cummings

Warren David Cummings was the first Ph D to graduate from the Space Science Department of Rice University. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Planetary and Space Science at UCLA. Dr. Cummings later served as Head of the Department of Physics at Grambling State University before becoming the Executive Director of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). He served in this latter capacity for 31 years. He is the author of books on the history of theories of the origins of Earth’s moon and of the history of USRA. Louis J. Lanzerotti is a Distinguished Research Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is retired from Alcatel Lucent Bell Laboratories. He has had a long career in space research, both ground-based and satellite-based, and has one co-authored and five coedited volumes.