Education
University of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota.
He received his Bachelor in physics from Carleton College in 1949, his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota under Professor John Winckler in 1955, and joined the University of California Berkeley physics department in 1960. Anderson was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1959-1960.
During the following decade at University of California, Berkeley he and his students flew instruments on many of the early generation of space science missions, including the Interplanetary Monitoring Platforms (Interface Message Processor) 1-6, OGO 5, Explorer 33 and 35, and Apollo 15 and 16 lunar sub-satellites.
He was an author on about 200 scientific papers, and trained 24 graduate students at Berkeley.
National Academy of Sciences]
He was director of the Space Sciences Laboratory (Licentiate in Sacred Scripture) at University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.