User:Desotojohn/JOHN KIEREIN

John Kierein was born in South Bend, IN, on November 29, 1936. He received the B.S. degree in physics from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, in 1959, and the M.B.A. degree from Indiana University, Bloomington. in 1961.

He is currently the System Engineering Manager for the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite at Ball Space Systems Division, Boulder, CO, where he has worked since 1977.

He previously managed many shuttle payloads, including the plasma diagnostics package and the shuttle imaging radar. At Rockwell Space Division, Downey, CA, from 1975 to 1977, he managed studies of shuttle payloads and methods of extending orbiter mission life. From 1965 to 1975 he managed the integration of Skylab's astronomy and space sciences experiments at Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO. He previously worked at the McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis, MO, for the propulsion and thermodynamics departments. His interests are in low-frequency radio astronomy, non-Doppler redshift cosmology, and nontraditional gravitational theories.

Title: Compton Effect Interpretation of Solar Red Shift Authors: Kierein, J. W.; Sharp, B. M. Affiliation: AA(McDonnell Douglas Corp.), AB(McDonnell Douglas Corp.) Publication: Solar Physics, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp.450-453 (SoPh Homepage) Publication Date: 03/1968 Origin: ADS; SPRINGER DOI: 10.1007/BF00171618 Bibliographic Code: 1968SoPh....3..450K