Bruce Murray

1931 – 2013

News Writer:

Douglas Smith

Bruce Murray in a 1991 photograph.

Credit: Caltech Archives/Bob Paz

Bruce Churchill Murray, Caltech Professor of Planetary Science, Emeritus, and former head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), succumbed to complications of Alzheimer's disease on August 29, 2013. He was 81.

Related Links:

"A Close Encounter of the First Kind" (Mariner 2 flies by Venus)

"Mariner Looks at Mars" (Mariner 9 photo essay), E&S January, 1972

"Mars—Science Fiction to Science"—by Bruce C. Murray, E&S February, 1972

"Payoff from Venus"—by Bruce C. Murray, (Mariner 10) E&S March-April, 1974

"The Limits of Science"—by Bruce C. Murray, E&S April-May, 1975

"Solar Energy: True God or False Prophet?"—by Bruce C. Murray, E&S March-April, 1978

"Where Do We Go Next in Space?"—by Bruce C. Murray, E&S May 1982

"The Poles of Mars: A Key to Understanding Earth's Ice Age"—by Bruce C. Murray, E&S March, 1987

"Voyager and the Grandest Tour Ever: Catching the Wave of the Century"—by Bruce C. Murray (excerpted from Journey into Space), E

"Planetary Exploration in Extremis"— by Peter J. Westwick (excerpted from Into the Black), E&S Number Four, 2006

"The Fall and Rise (and Fall?) of Life on Mars"—by Douglas L. Smith, E&S Number Four, 2007