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Robert J Baran is an American Professional Engineer and Physicist. He has been a registered professional engineer in Texas and also Nationally registered He is now retired but working on experimental charge separation devices and has interests in the history of mathematics, esp. the role of matrix theory to older classical integral theory. Also in hermeneutics as it is used in the development of physics. He is the author of three books. In his earlier working days he was chief engineer responsible for the design and implementation of the Emergency Rocket Communications System (launched Minuteman force); Minuteman Nuclear Weapons Safety Officer, member staff and chief scientist at Mitre Corporation in charge of nuclear hardening of flight systems; experimentalist who first used the Cockroft Walton deuteron accelerator at MIT to verify theoretical predictions of behavior of semiconductor junctions in the fast neutron environment. He also designed and built the first Q-Switched high power neodymium laser and authored several papers on the interaction of (simulated) hard x-rays and matter. He has been principally an experimentalist but recent interests are more along theoretical lines (group theory, etc.). He has contributed many patents, mostly in the apparatus used in oil exploration. He was lecturer at the Pentagon of the effects of transient radiation effects and consultant to Sandia, the AF Weapons lab, Bendix, TRW, and others.

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• Self Portrait, 2009
  Self Portrait, 2009

Education Baran graduated from the University of Arizona at Tucson and attended MIT (studying under DJ Rose in the plasma physics program) and TAMU in graduate physics.

Awards Baran has been awarded an AFIT scholarship by the US Air Force and NSF fellowship to study at MIT;

Research Baran has current interests in Charge Separation Devices. His research work includes: 3-dimensional infrared signature analysis, laser simulation of the effects of x-rays on materials and systems, 14 MEV neutron bombardment, super saturated steam injection for oil recovery, flat plate mechanics, radiation hardening of oil field down hole equipment, and in the field of perception – authoring an original work in this area.

Papers.Writing include: Book: Son of Mechanic Use of algorithms to approximate non linear systems

Research Papers: Theory of Perception, Harvard University, 1964. Use of infrared to obtain signatures of foreign objects, Mitre, 1965 Neodymium Q-Switched laser simulation of x-rays, Mitre, 1965 Fast forward current transfer ratio (Hfe) decay in neutron fields, Mitre, 1967. Cockroft Walton Deuteron Accelerator setups and physics, Baran and Gottschalk, Mit, 1968. Hermeneutical exegenesis as a subdivision in the application of psychology,A

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