Robert G. Jahn
Biography
Robert G. Jahn (born 1930) is an American aerospace engineer and physicist who received his B.S. in mechanical engineering (1951), M.A. in physics (1953), and Ph.D. in physics (1955) from Princeton University. He served as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Aerospace Sciences at Princeton. While primarily known for his work in plasma propulsion and high-temperature gasdynamics, Jahn founded the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory in 1979 to study parapsychological phenomena including psychokinesis and remote viewing. His research employed random event generators in experiments attempting to demonstrate human consciousness effects on physical systems. Though his parapsychology work achieved international prominence, it remains distinct from UAP/UFO research and has faced significant scientific criticism regarding reproducibility and experimental controls.