E. Philip Krider

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According to Krider's Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences website:

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Dr. Krider currently teaches courses on physical meteorology (ATMO 451/551) and atmospheric electricity (ATMO/ECE 489/589) at The University of Arizona. Dr. Krider is known world-wide for his work on lightning and thunderstorm electricity. He led the group that developed the first gated, wideband magnetic direction-finders that are now the basis of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network. Dr. Krider is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society and a former Co-Chief Editor and Editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences; he is also past President of the International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity.[1]

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Contents 1 Transcluded from Firestorm 2 Notes 3 References 4 Further Reading 5 External Links

Transcluded from Firestorm

1. Names: "Thank you, all of McDonald's academic colleagues at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and various Departments of the University of Arizona at Tucson who granted me interviews or otherwise helped with documentation: Drs. Paul E. Damon, Benjamin Herman, Philip Krider, Richard Kassander, Paul S. Martin, Al Mead, William Sellers, Dean Staley, Cornelius "Corny" Steelink, Raymond M. Turner. Thanks to his colleagues in other university and government settings who kindly gave interviews: Professor Charles B. Moore, Margaret Sanderson-Rae, James Hughes, Ethel Carpenter. I thank our colleagues in the UFO research field: Drs. Eugene Epstein, Eric Kelson, Mark Rodeghier, Dave Saunders, Bert E. Schwarz, Robert M. Wood, and to Ted Bloecher, David Branch, Paul Duich, George Earley, Idabel Epperson, Marilyn Epperson, Richard H. Hall, Rex E. Heflin, Henk Hinfelaar, Brenda Hinfelaar, Gordon Lore, Marty Lore, Bill Moore, Paul Norman, Roy Russell, Pearl Russell, James Westwood. Thanks also to Philip J. Klass, Jan McDonald, Dr. Robert Nathan, Stephan A. Schwartz.
   
   Thank you, my writing buddies, for your constant help: Dorothy Shapiro, Alice Nordstrom, Helevi Nordstrom, Elton Boyer, Dr. Louise Ludwig. And a special thanks to my sweet husband, Charles K. Druffel, a true UFO skeptic who recognized in Jim McDonald a genuine manifestation of the reality of the UFO phenomenon and who, a few months before his own passage into the transcendental realm, accomplished a final edit, with his own red pencil, of the voluminous manuscript."^[2]

Notes

References

• Druffel, Ann (2003). Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science. Columbus, NC: Wild Flower Press. ISBN 0-926524-58-5. 

Further Reading

External Links

• Benjamin Franklin and the First Lightning Conductor
• University of Arizona phone directory