Charles B. Moore, Jr. (1920) is an American physicist, engineer and meteorologist, known for his work with gas balloons. 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... Physicists working in a government lab A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. ... A scientific balloon being launched near Lynn Lake in Manitoba, Canada. ...

He was a former participant in Project Mogul, where his work in materials science allowed the construction of balloons which could better withstand cold temperatures, thereby allowing them to safely rise to significantly greater altitudes. In this role, he has become known as a debunker of Roswell mythos. Project Mogul was a top secret project involving high-altitude balloons, started in 1947, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of atomic bomb tests in the Soviet Union through detection of the sound waves in the upper atmosphere generated by the explosions. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Debunkers are skeptics who attempt to disprove and pursues what they consider to be false, unscientific, bizarre or abnormal claims. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

He is also known for his 1959 expedition to the stratosphere with Malcolm Ross, in which they performed the first spectrographic analysis of the planet Venus which was free of interference from the Earth's atmosphere, thereby proving the existence of water on that planet; this expedition involved an ascent to 89,000 feet (then a record for altitude). 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Atmosphere diagram showing stratosphere The stratosphere is a layer of Earths atmosphere that is stratified in temperature, with warmer layers higher up and cooler layers farther down. ... Adjective Venusian or (rarely) Cytherean (*min temperature refers to cloud tops only) Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 9. ... Impact of a drop of water. ...

He taught at New Mexico Tech for several years, and nonimally retired in 1985; however, he continued his research afterwards, and his subsequent discoveries led to the first improvement in the design of the lightning rod since that device's invention by Benjamin Franklin [1]. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Also called New Mexico Tech), is a research university located in Socorro, New Mexico. ... An example of a conventional standard, pointed rod with blunt tip, air terminal A lightning rod (or lightning protector) is a metal strip or rod, usually of copper or similar conductive material, used as part of lightning safety to protect tall or isolated structures (such as the roof of a... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ...

External links

• TIME.com's 1959 article on the Venus observation
• Article on Moore's election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union