Charles B. Moore
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Charles B. Moore, Jr. (born 1920) is an American physicist, engineer and meteorologist, known for his work with gas balloons.
He was a former participant in Project Mogul, where his work in materials science allowed the construction of balloons which could better withstand cold temperatures, thereby allowing them to safely rise to significantly greater altitudes. In this role, he has become known as a debunker of Roswell mythos.
He is also known for his 1959 expedition to the stratosphere with Malcolm Ross, in which they performed the first spectrographic analysis of the planet Venus which was free of interference from the Earth's atmosphere, thereby proving the existence of water on that planet; this expedition involved an ascent to 89,000 feet (then a record for altitude).
He taught at New Mexico Tech for several years, and nonimally retired in 1985; however, he continued his research afterwards, and his subsequent discoveries led to the first improvement in the design of the lightning rod since that device's invention by Benjamin Franklin [1].
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