Van Snyder on Unleashed with Marc Morano - 10 April 2024

GUEST OVERVIEW: Van Snyder worked as a mathematician and software for the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 53 years, providing support for many outer-planet missions from Viking to Voyager to Galileo to Cassini, and Earth-orbiting missions including Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, TOPEX/Poseidon, NSCAT, Microwave Limb Sounder, and Orbiting Carbon Observatory. About twenty years ago, he began an intense study of energy, especially nuclear power, with mentoring from leaders of the field such as the late George Stanford, William Hannum, Gerald Marsh, and the Acting Director of Argonne National Laboratory Yoon Il Chang.