Serving as principal scientist of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) project (aka Star Wars), Dr. Gerold Yonas was a pioneer scientist within the field of Materials at Extremes with a career which started at NASA’s JPL and ended at the Sandia National Laboratories.
With an impressive collection of scientific works in national security engineering, physicist Dr Yonas served as major scientific mind behind President Ronald Regan’s ambitious SDI project during the Cold War and his life history has been recently summarised in an autobiographical book entitled “Death Rays and Delusions” in which I really recommend; it is a must read!
Nowadays enjoying a healthy retirement, Dr. Yonas has been dedicating his scientific time to understand complex relationships between electromagnetic waves and neural processes at the brain’s level.
Materials at Extremes 