[Excerpt from Washington Post Online]--Jeremy Stone, who retired six months ago after 30 years as FAS president, said he "struggled" to maintain funding support for Pike's work. But Pike was always worth the effort, Stone said.
"He worked around the clock, to the point of exhaustion, and with tremendous creativity, ingenuity and selflessness in sharing his work," Stone said.
Stone, a PhD mathematician from Stanford, acknowledged that his star staff member attended Vanderbilt but never got a degree. "I view him as the Edwin Land of our community - Land never graduated from Harvard. He was a great genius, and he didn't have time for college," Stone said. "John didn't have time for anything that didn't interest him. As opposed to working on lost causes, John works on things that are ripe for media attention - and he's been far more successful at managing the media than any scientist at FAS." [End Excerpt] -- Article
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He's an expert in the MEDIA!!!
Another leftist space expert is John Logsdon. However John does have a PhD and is a professor at George Washington University. He is of the same ilk as Pike except he has official "papers."