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Robert G. Jahn

Also Bob Jahn, Dean Jahn

An engineer who was dean of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1971 and whose principal field was high-power plasma discharges for deep-space propulsion. In 1979 he founded a psi research program in Princeton's School of Engineering, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, which tested whether people could influence random number generators. The National Research Council committee whose 1988 report reviewed parapsychology visited the laboratory.

In the documents

  • Robert G. Jahn '51, *55 has been dean of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science since 1971.

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  • to lecture on his principal field: pulsed, high-power plasma discharges, which are of interest for deep-space propulsion

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  • Also in 1979, another psi research program began in Princeton, New Jersey, within the School of Engineering at Princeton University. This was founded by Robert Jahn, then the Dean of the School of Engineering.

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  • The parapsychology subcommittee (see Appendix C) visited Robert Jahn's Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory at Princeton University, where it witnessed presentations and demonstrations regarding psychokinetic experiments on random number generators.

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Published record

  • Robert G. Jahn, "Psychic Process, Energy Transfer, and Things That Go Bump in the Night," PAW Special Report, Princeton Alumni Weekly, 4 December 1978 (copy in the release, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500380004-4; duplicate CIA-RDP96-00787R000500070001-1).
  • Robert G. Jahn, "Psychic Research: New Dimensions or Old Delusions?" presented at the New Horizons in Science Seventeenth Annual Briefing, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Palo Alto, California, 8 November 1979 (copy in the release, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500380001-7).

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