Diferencia entre revisiones de «Alexander Abian»

Abian was born in [[Tabriz, Iran]], and was of [[Iranian Armenians|Armenian descent]]. After earning an undergraduate degree in Iran, he emigrated to the [[United States]] in 1952, where he received a master's degree from the [[University of Chicago]]. Abian then obtained a Ph.D. from the [[University of Cincinnati]], where he wrote a dissertation on a topic in [[invariant theory]] under the direction of Isaac Barnett. After teaching posts in [[Tennessee]], [[New York]], [[Pennsylvania]], and [[Ohio]], he joined the faculty of Iowa State in 1967. He wrote three books and published more than two hundred papers.

 

Abian gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the [[Moon]] would solve virtually every problem of human existence. He made this claim in 1991 in a campus newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |title=YIKES!: GOODNIGHT, MOON Shoot the moon? Hell, says Prof. Alexander Abian, why not just blow it up?; |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20115383,00.html| publisher=People | date=1991-06-24 | accessdate=2006-10-18 }}</ref> Stating that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like [[heat waves]], [[snowstorms]] and [[hurricanes]]. Refutations were given toward that idea by [[NASA]] saying that part of the exploded Moon would come back as a [[meteorite]] impacting the Earth and causing sufficient damage to extinguish all life, while restoring the seasons in the process.

Just before he died, Abian said that "Those critics who say 'Dismiss Abian's ideas' are very close to those who dismissed Galileo."<ref>{{cite news |first=Richard |last=Morin |title=Drunks + Kids = Profits |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/29/AR2006052900845.html|work=The Washington Post | date=2006-05-30 | accessdate=2006-10-18}}</ref> This claim and others, made in thousands of Usenet posts during the last portion of his life, gained Abian mention (not entirely favorable) and even interviews in such diverse publications as ''[[Omni (magazine)|Omni]]'', ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'', and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref name="wsj">Valente, Judith. "Hate Winter? Here's A Scientist's Answer: Blow Up the Moon." The Wall Street Journal. April 22, 1991.</ref>