Alexander Bolonkin

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Alexander Alexandrovich Bolonkin (born March 14, 1933 in the former USSR) is an American scientist. He holds a PhD. in aerospace and is a professor, specializing in aviation, aerospace, mathematics, and computers.

He was granted Bachelor Degree (B.D.) in aviation engines by Perm Aviation College, Master of Science (M.S.) in aviation by Kazan Aviation Institute, M.S. in mathematics by Kiev University, Ph.D. in Space and Control Sciences by Moscow Aviation Institute, Post-doctoral Degree in Cybernetic by Leningrad Polytechnical Institute (USSR). Worked in the Soviet aviation, space and rocket industries, and lectured in Moscow Universities.

In 1972 he was arrested by the Soviet secret police (KGB) for intent to instigate democracy in the communist regime, listening to the "Voice of America" and reading and disseminating works of academician A.D. Sakharov and writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He spent 15 years in Soviet concentration camps and in exile. He was tortured extensively by the KGB. For example, the KGB kept him for more than one year in light clothes in a cold punishment cell, provided only one pound of old bread per day with water along with 3 years in a special prison. In early "perestroika" (1987), he was released by the KGB and gained entry into the USA as a political refugee.

In the USA he lectured at American Universities, worked at NASA and in the scientific laboratories of the USA Air Force as a Senior Researcher from the National Research Council. He has authored more than 100 scientific articles and books (most of them published in the USA) and 17 patented inventions. He suggested a method of re-writing the main information of human brain onto chips and the electronic immortality of people.[1]

In the aerospace sciences, A. Bolonkin suggested and developed the theory of a cable space launcher, a hypersonic tube launcher, a kinetic anti-gravitator, a multi-reflex propulsion device with engine, space towers, an electrostatic space sail, a ramjet electric space propulsion device, a cable aviation device, etc.[2] A. Bolonkin is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Space Agency, Chairman of the section "Space Flights", and President of the International Association of Former Soviet Political Prisoners and Victims of the Communist Regime.

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[edit] Publications in English

  1. Bolonkin A.A., The twenty-first century: the advent of the non-biological civilization and the future of the human race, Journal Kybernetes, Vol.28, No3, 1999, pp.325-334, MCB University Press, 0368-492X (English). http://Bolonkin.narod.ru/p101.htm .
  2. Bolonkin A.A., The twenty-first century – The beginning of human immortality, Journal Kybernetes, Vol. 33, No, 9/10, 2004, pp.1535-1542, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 0368=482X. (English),
  3. Bolonkin A.A., Human Immortality and Electronic Civilization, (Translation from Russian some Bolonkin's articles), http://Bolonkin.narod.ru/p101.htm ,

[edit] Publications in Russian

[edit] Periodicals

Newspaper "New Russian Word" (USA), Mart 6, 1995, ?.14; April 4, 2000.
Newspaper "Public Newspaper", Minsk, Byelorussia, August, 1995.
Newspaper "Week News", Israel. September 30, 1997.
Newspaper "Literary Newspaper", October 11, 1997.
Magazine "Technology to Young", #12, 1996, ?.44.; #10, 1997.
Magazine "?g?ne?", #42, 1997?; ?pril 24, ?. 18-19.
Newspaper "Contact" (USA), May 28, 1998.
Newspaper "Russian Newspaper" (Russia), July 31, 1998.
Newspaper "Komsomolskaia Pravda", August 27, 1998.
Newspaper "Izvestia", August 28, 1998, p.4; July 8, 2001, p.2.
Magazine "King Journal" (USA), 1998, ?. 8-17.
Newspaper "News" (Russia), April 13, 1999.
Newspaper "Severnaia Pravda", (Russia), 1999.
Newspaper "Russian Bazaar", (USA), #171, July 30, 1997.
Magazine "Energy of Mind", (Kiev, Ukraine), December, 2000.
Magazine "Dissident", #230, July 3, 1999?., #1, 2000.
Newspaper "Interesting Newspaper" (USA) #265, May 10, 2000.

[edit] Books

Getmanskii, "Price of Immortality", Moscow, EKCMO. 2003.
Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight (Elsevier, 2006) 488 pages.
Macro-Engineering. A Challenge for the Future, Ed. by V. Badescu and et at. Springer, 2006.

(contains Bolonkin's articles: Space Towers, Cable Anti-Gravitator. Electrostatic Levitation and Artificial gravity).

[edit] Internet

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Human Immortality and Electronic Civilization". Part of this book is translated from Russian into English and published at http://Bolonkin.narod.ru/p101.htm
  2. ^ list of publication at http://Bolonkin.narod.ru/p65.htm

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