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Edward Carroll Stone (January 23, 1936 – June 9, 2024) was an American space scientist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Jun 11, 2024 · Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and longtime project scientist of the agency’s Voyager mission, died on June 9, 2024. He was age 88. He was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Stone, whom he met at the University of Chicago.
Edward C. Stone was an internationally known physicist who served as project scientist for the Voyager program from 1972 to 2022. As a graduate student at the University Chicago, he was inspired to enter the fields of planetary science and space exploration by the launch of Sputnik in 1957.
Jun 11, 2024 · Edward C. Stone, Caltech's David Morrisroe Professor of Physics, Emeritus, passed away on June 9. He was 88 years old.
Jun 14, 2024 · Edward C. Stone, the visionary physicist who dispatched NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and, for the first time, to venture beyond to unravel...
Jun 15, 2024 · Edward C. Stone, renowned for his leadership of the Voyager spacecraft missions and his role in advancing space and planetary astronomy at Caltech and JPL, has died at 88. His career included directing JPL and contributing to the development of the Keck Observatory and the Thirty Meter Telescope.
Jun 13, 2024 · Edward C. Stone, a luminary in space exploration and former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, passed away on June 9, 2024, at age 88. Known for his leadership of the Voyager mission, Stone enhanced our understanding of the solar system and interstellar space.
