Joseph P. Allen

American astronaut

Joseph P. Allen is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Joseph P. Allen as American astronaut.

Joseph P. Allen was born at Crawfordsville in 1937. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Yale University and DePauw University.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

Joseph P. Allen is described as astronaut and physicist.

His affiliations include National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.

His recorded fields of work are particle physics.

Formal recognition came in the shape of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

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