Jacques Bergier
By Emily Westfall
Biography
Early Life
Jacques Bergier was born Yakov Bergier in 1912 to a Jewish family in Odessa. His family fled the Russian Civil War to France in 1920.[1][2]
Scientific Pioneer
Bergier studied physics, chemistry and engineering in Paris in the early 1930s.[3]
He created a laboratory with fellow student Alfred Eskenazi in France to study chemical and nuclear reactions spreading the release of nuclear energy from lighter elements(8,7).[2]<ref name=8EOP>Jacques Bergier. 2001 Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology.January 1.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name His scientific team spearheaded research into the element polonium and “registered the first patent for electronic cooling of nuclear batteries”.[3]
Military
Marco Polo in WWII
Writing
Contributions to Pseudoarchaeology
Affect on the Pseudoarchaeological Narrative
References
- ↑ Colavito, Jason 2017 The Strange Case of "Morning of the Magicians" in Soviet Russia. Jason Colavito. Jason Colavito, February 21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Contemporary Authors Online 2003 Jacques Bergier. Literature Resource Center. Gale
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The New York Times(NYT) 1978 Jacques Bergier, at 66; French Science Writer And a Resistance Chief: Data Gathered on the V-2 November 25:28. New York City, New York.