Ronald Erwin McNair, Ph.D. (October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was an American physicist and a NASA astronaut. McNair perished during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L. He was a native of Lake City, South Carolina. McNair received a B.S. in physics from North Carolina A&T State University in 1971, and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977. spaceshuttlememorial
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EXPERIENCE: While at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. McNair performed some of the earliest development of chemical HF/DF and high-pressure CO lasers. www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mcnair.html
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