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Robert J Baran is an American Professional Engineer and Physicist. He has been a registered professional engineer in Texas and also Nationally registered He is now retired but working on experimental charge separation devices and has interests in the history of mathematics, esp. the role of matrix theory to older classical integral theory. Also in hermeneutics as it is used in the development of physics. He is the author of three books. In his earlier working days he was chief engineer responsible for the design and implementation of the Emergency Rocket Communications System (launched Minuteman force); Minuteman Nuclear Weapons Safety Officer, member staff and chief scientist at Mitre Corporation in charge of nuclear hardening of flight systems; experimentalist who first used the Cockroft Walton deuteron accelerator at MIT to verify theoretical predictions of behavior of semiconductor junctions in the fast neutron environment. He also designed and built the first Q-Switched high power neodymium laser and authored several papers on the interaction of (simulated) hard x-rays and matter. He has been principally an experimentalist but recent interests are more along theoretical lines (group theory, etc.). He has contributed many patents, mostly in the apparatus used in oil exploration. He was lecturer at the Pentagon of the effects of transient radiation effects and consultant to Sandia, the AF Weapons lab, Bendix, TRW, and others.

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