In Praise of Hybridity: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank J Malina

Colleagues I have just drafted this editorial to appear in Leonardo Journal. I would welcome comments and thoughts Roger Malina In Praise of Hybridity: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank J Malina v3   My father was a hybrid. He achieved success in the 1940s as a scientist in the nascent field …

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A History of the Leonardo Journal on the 100th anniversary of the birth of it’s founder Frank J Malina

Colleagues Here is draft article I am finalising Comments welcome Roger Malina A History of the Leonardo Journal on the 100th anniversary of the birth of  it’s founder Frank J Malina   Author(s): Roger Malina and Pamela Grant-Ryan   Abstract-   The development of the journal Leonardo is traced from its beginnings as an idea …

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MESSENGER OF LIGHT: ANNOUNCING FRANK MALINA EXHIBITION IN PILSEN CZECH REPUBLIC

posel_svetla_epozvanka (2)   EXHIBITION IN CELEBRATION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH The exhibition opening will be held at 3.45pm on Monday 6th May 2013 as part of the Liberation Festival 2013 – a celebrationof the 68th anniversary of our city’s liberation by American troops and the end of World War II in Europe The exhibition opening …

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Countdown to Start of Frank Malina Centenary Year

Colleagues My father Frank Malina was born on October 2 1912. We are counting down to the start of the Frank Malina Centenary celebration beginning October 2 2012. Keep informed by joining the Frankjmalina Twitter account:  @FrankJMalina: https://twitter.com/FrankJMalina Check out the Frank Malina tumbler:  http://frankjmalina.tumblr.com/ Check out the Frank Malina on line Archives:  http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/malina.php Check out …

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Recipient of Frank J. Malina Astronautics Medal 2012

Prof. Amalia Ercoli Finzi Recipient of Frank J. Malina Astronautics Medal 2012 Amalia was born to be a “Teacher”, and a “Teacher” she has been for all her life. For almost fifty years she has held Courses at the Aerospace Department of the Politecnico di Milano in Dynamic of Spaceflight and in Orbital Mechanics; several …

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Countdown to 100th anniversary of birth of Frank Malina

Colleagues My father Frank Malina was born on October 2 2012 and we are beginning some celebrations. The first will be a Leonardo Party in Paris on June 30. If you would like to be invited, drop me an email at rmalina-at-alum.mit.edu. It also turns out that Nicolas Schoffer, pioneering kinetic artist,  and Frank Oppenheimer, …

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Frank Malina in the News

President John F. Kennedy once wrote, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” President Kennedy never had the opportunity to deliver the above line, which was part of a speech that he would have delivered in November 1963 to the Dallas Citizens Council, to celebrate the creation of a graduate research center, but it …

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JPL Podcast on Frank Malina: The American Rocketeer

JPL Podcast on Frank Malina: The American Rocketeer http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/podcast/content.cfm?content=1029 The documentary is being shown Nov 3 on KCET in Los Angeles Open with music and voice track from “The American Rocketeer”: This is the story of one man’s reach for the stars. And how his ideas and idealism put him on a collision course with …

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75TH Anniversary of first rocket tests by Frank Malina oct 31 2011

This halloween is the 75th anniversary of the first rocket tests that led to the WAC CORPORAL rocket that my father Frank Malina and his team built, project that led to the founding of the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab on the site of the rocket tests JPL has issued a documentary-details of screenings below the …

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Lecture posted: Frank J. Malina and Gyorgy Kepes

Here is the Keynote Lecture from “The Pleasure of Light exhibition and conference, a collaboration between the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, The French Institute Budapest and the Ludwig Museum- Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest. The exhibition and conference presents the pioneering interdisciplinary concepts of György Kepes and Frank J. …

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