Ronald McNair made a career in science at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Ronald McNair as American physicist, astronaut (1950-1986).
Ronald McNair was born at Lake City in 1950. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Ronald McNair is described as physicist, astronaut and saxophonist.
His affiliations include National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Results that survive re-examination become the floor of a discipline.
His work was formally recognised with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
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.
Death came in 1986, at 36. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Affiliated with National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- Worked as physicist, astronaut and saxophonist
