James Edward McDonald | |
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| Born | May 7, 1920 |
| Died | June 13, 1971 (aged 51) Tucson, Arizona, US |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Omaha MIT Iowa State University |
| Thesis | Radiation-Errors and Lag-Errors in the Measurement of Turbulent Temperature Fluctuations (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph M. Keller |
| Other advisors | Thomas F. Malone |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | cloud physics weather modification ufology |
| Institutions | Naval Aerology School Iowa State University University of Chicago University of Arizona |
James Edward McDonald (May 7, 1920 – June 13, 1971) was an American atmospheric physicist and meteorologist. He is known for his scientific research in weather modification through cloud seeding, while working as a associate director at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and a professor of meteorology at the University of Arizona in Tucson.[1]
During the 1960s, McDonald campaigned in support of expanding UFO studies, and promoted the extraterrestrial hypothesis as a plausible explanation of UFO phenomena.[2][3]
- ^ Battan, Louis J. (1971). "James Edward McDonald 1920–1971". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 52 (8): 735–735. ISSN 0003-0007.
- ^ Berliner, Don. "Congressional Hearings on UFOs". ufoevidence.org.
- ^ McDonald, James E. (1972). "Science in Default". In Carl Sagan, Thornton Page (ed.). UFO's, A Scientific Debate. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 134th Meeting. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780393007398.