Dan Alderson
Dan Alderson
Daniel John "Dan" Aldersonwas a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and a prominent participant in science fiction fandom. He came from a middle-class family and had diabetes. A high school science fair project on the gravitational fields of non-spherical bodies won him a college scholarship to Caltech and a job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he wrote the software used to navigate Voyagers 1 and 2...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth31 October 1941