Durk Pearson: Living Well Past 2001

August, 1980

The Eighties may well be the decade of the scientist superstar, if the sudden popularity of Durk Pearson is any indication. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 with a degree in physics and scored in the highest percentile in the United States for that year's graduate record exam. Putting his genius-range I.Q. to work, he started a scientific consulting business involving him in aerospace, energy and life-extension research. But his most exciting discoveries have come...