Harry Kloor
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Harry Kloor at Comic-Con 2009
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Other names | "Doc" |
Education | BA, BA, Southern Oregon State College M.Ed Southern Oregon University PhD, PhD Purdue University |
Occupation | Scientist Educator Author Inventor Screenwriter Film producer Film director National Technology Policy Advisor X Prize Chief Technology Officer |
Employer | Co-founder Universal Consultants |
Known for | Simultaneous PhDs in Chemistry and Physics |
Title | Doctor |
Harry 'Doc' Kloor is an American scientist, film producer, director, writer, and businessman. Kloor was the first (and still the only) person to be awarded two PhDs simultaneously in two distinct academic disciplines. He holds PhDs in Physics and in Chemistry.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Scientific Activities
Kloor is the CEO of Loarz Inc and Jupiter 9 Productions. Kloor also founded the Rocket Racing League, and served on the founding team for Singularity University, where he still serves as a media adviser. Kloor taught at the first summer session of Singularity University in 2009. He was also the chief science adviser for the X Prize Organization, advising X Prize Chairman and CEO Dr. Peter H. Diamandis on science and technology issues.[8] In 2011, Kloor attended a meeting discussing DARPA's 100 Year Starship study.[9]
Kloor also co-founded the company Universal Consultants, where he served as chief science consultant, providing guidance to clients in the development of new technological products, patents, and policy positions. These clients include NASA, the National Security Agency, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the US Senate, American Medical Association, and Jet Propulsion Laboratories.[4][5][7]
Film
Kloor is a film writer, director and producer. Since his graduation from Purdue University, he has written for Star Trek: Voyager and was the story editor for Gene Roddenberry's, Earth: Final Conflict, a series he co-created/developed.[4][5][7] Kloor has received Federal grants to develop some of his work with the entertainment industry, creating TV/film projects with NASA and the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency.[4][5][10] He completed his first feature in 2010, co-directing, producer and writing Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, a 3-D, computer-animated, action adventure, sci-fi program.[4][5][7][11] In 2014, he co-wrote and produced a film titled "ILL WIND", based on Kevin J. Anderson's and Doug Beason's book.[12]
Filmography
- As producer
- Earth: Final Conflict (20 episodes, 1997–1998)
- Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010) (and as director and writer)
- ILL WIND (2015-2017) (and as writer)
- As writer
- Earth: Final Conflict (1 episode 1997, 15 stories uncredited)
- Episode "Scorpion's Dream" (1997)
- Star Trek: Voyager (6 episodes, 1997–1998)
- "Real Life" (1997)
- "The Raven" (1997)
- "Scientific Method" (1997)
- "Be Afraid of the Dark" (unproduced, 1999)
- "Drone" (1998)
- "False Profits" (1998)
- Godzilla: The Series (1 episode, 1999)
- "Competition" (1999)
- Deadzone: The Series (1 episode, 2004)
- "The Master" (unproduced, 2004)
- Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
- ILL WIND (2015)
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External links
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- Living people
- 1963 births
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- American film directors
- American physicists
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- Purdue University alumni
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- Southern Oregon University alumni
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