R.I.P. William Shurcliff
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.28.06 | 12:46 PM ET
The famed physicist was, among other things, the founder of the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom, “a scientific clearinghouse that opposed the U.S. government’s development of supersonic transit,” according to an obituary in today’s Washington Post. Shurcliff emphasized the “sound pollution” of supersonic jets and, writes Adam Bernstein in the Post, was credited with helping to end the development of American supersonic jets and to limit supersonic flights from Europe to the U.S. Shurcliff also built kayaks, helped create military camouflage paint, co-edited an official history of the Manhattan Project, advocated for solar energy and documented atomic tests on Bikini Atoll. He was 97.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
