John E. Brandenburg is a theoretical plasma physicist who was born in Rochester Minnesota, and
grew up in Medford Oregon. He is the originator of the GEM unification theory, unifying Gravity
and EM which he hopes will lead to advanced space propulsion and which predicts the value of
the Newton Gravitation constant “G” to unrivaled accuracy.

He is the inventor and developer of
the MET (Microwave Electro-Thermal) thruster using water propellant, now flying successfully
in space. He is also the discoverer of the Paleo-Ocean of Mars. He obtained his BA in Physics,
with a Mathematics minor, from Southern Oregon University in 1975 and obtained his MS in 1977
and PhD in Plasma Physics both from University of California at Davis in 1981, with a working
fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. His first professional position was at
Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque working on controlled fusion and directed energy
weapons.

He was working at Kepler Aerospace LDT in Midland Texas as Chief Scientist of the
Astronautics Division on the subjects of Advanced Space propulsion and Fusion Energy. He is
now an independent space/physics consultant. Before this he was a consultant at Cal State
Fullerton on Advanced Space Propulsion. Before that he was a consultant at Morningstar Applied
Physics LLC and a part-time instructor of Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics at Madison
College and other learning institutions in Madison Wisconsin. Before this, he worked at Orbital
Technologies in Madison Wisconsin, as Senior Propulsion Scientist, working on space plasma
technologies, nuclear fusion, and advanced space propulsion. He is the principle inventor of the
MET (Microwave Electro-Thermal) plasma thruster using water propellant for space
propulsion.

He has previously worked on SDI, the Clementine Mission to the Moon, Rocket
Plume-Regolith Interactions on the Moon and Mars, Vortex theory of Rocket engine design, and
the GEM unification theory, which is a combined Sakharov-Kaluza-Klein theory of Field
Unification for purposes of space propulsion and Mars science. He is a lifetime member of the
AIAA. He also performed an architecture study for a Human Mars Mission using solar electric
propulsion. Before coming to ORBITEC he was teaching and performing research at the Florida
Space Institute of the University of Central Florida, at Aerospace Corporation in Chantilly Va.,
and earlier at Research Support Instruments (RSI) in Lanham Maryland. During the Reagan years
he worked at Mission Research Corporation and Sandia National Laboratories on SDI and plasmas
for controlled fusion and directed energy weapons.

He has authored the popular science books
“Death on Mars,” (2014) “Life and Death on Mars” (2010), “Beyond Einstein’s Unified Field”

(2011) and “Dead Mars, Dying Earth” (1999) with Monica Rix Paxson, which won the Ben
Franklin Silver Medal award for best Science/Environmental book in 2001. He has written two
science fiction novels under the pen name “Victor Norgarde”: “Morningstar Pass, The collapse of
the UFO Coverup” and “Asteroid 20-2012 Sepulveda” He is the recipient of the William Gerald
Award in 2006 from the Harlem Children Society for his work with underprivileged stud ents, and
the 2012 Devi Bhargava Award at Madison College for working with students with disabilities.