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We have lost a major figure in consciousness research with the passing of Professor Robert G. Jahn, the founder and director of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory (PEAR). PEAR was Bob's longest running research program and capped a career that touched and influenced the farthest reaches of science, from the physics of electric propulsion for spacecraft to the extended capacities of human consciousness. Bob was born April 1 1930, and died Nov 15 2017 at his home in Princeton, surrounded by family and loved ones. He had a broadly influential role in psi research, and the PEAR lab became a home for many and a beacon for yet more people looking for inspiration and models that could help understand the extraordinary capacities of human consciousness. He was known around the world as a seminal figure in consciousness research.
Bob was Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University from 1971 to 1986. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an influential member of numerous other technical organizations. He was a founder and long time Vice President of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and Chairman of the Board of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories consortium. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Hercules, Inc. and Chairman of its Technology Committee, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Associated Universities. This is a small sample of the long list of Bob's achievements, but it is safe to say that with all his extraordinary contributions in science and technology, his deepest feelings of accomplishment were for the study of consciousness at the frontiers...