Career
As such, his goal was the creation and application of high magnetic fields. He has also worked on magnetic levitation for transit applications and on various electromagnetic space launch concepts including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mass Driver 1 (1976-1977), continuing into the 1980s. Over the years, he worked with Francis Bitter, Gerard K. O"Neill, and Eric Drexler, among others
In an op-ed column, Frank Rich quoted Kolm as saying, "We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture", in recounting his experience interrogating Colonel Rudolf Hess, Hitler"s personal military advisor (not to be confused with Rudolf Hess, Hitler"s deputy) over a chessboard.
