Edward C. Stone

Edward Carroll Stone is an American space scientist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and former director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory .

Stone was born in Knoxville, Iowa. After receiving his undergraduate education at Iowas Burlington Junior College, Stone attended the University of Chicago where he earned his MS and Ph.D. in physics. Stones astrophysics career goes back to his first cosmicray experiments on Discoverer satellites in 1961. He then joined the staff of Caltech as a research fellow, and became a full faculty member in 1967.

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