Ronald Mallett

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Ronald Lawrence Mallett (born March 3, 1945 in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania , USA ) is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Connecticut .

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The African American Ronald L. Mallett grew up in the Bronx , New York City . When he was ten years old, his 33-year-old father died of a heart attack . Inspired by the book The Time Machine by HG Wells , Mallett decided at a young age to find a solution to travel in time to save his father's life.

In 1962 he began his service with the US Air Force . He specialized in the field of electrical and computer engineering and began four years later to study physics at the Pennsylvania State University , which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and a master's degree in 1970. In 1973 Mallett received a doctorate from Pennsylvania State University. For the next two years he was an assistant at the United Technologies Research Laboratory before moving to the University of Connecticut as an assistant professor in 1975 . He has been an associate professor there since 1980 and has been a professor there since 1987. His specialties are general relativity , relativistic quantum mechanics and time travel .

Mallett is a member of the American Physical Society and the National Society of Black Physicists.

Works

  • Quantum theory in a (3 + 1) de Sitter universe . Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University.
  • Time Traveler. A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality. 2006, ISBN 1-56025-869-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professional Summary at http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~mallett/MallettCV.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Mallett, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mallett, Ronald Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania , USA