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Gerard K. O'Neill

American physicist, author, and inventor.

Born February 6th, 1927 in Brooklyn.

Died April 27th, 1992 at 65 years old in Redwood City (leukemia).

Occupations
astronomer, astrophysicist, physicist, university teacher

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death. Desmond Morris