Description
The John D. Mihalov Papers include record books, meeting notes,
project proposals, correspondence, design reviews, experiment plans, circuit diagrams,
instrument descriptions, test reports, data, charts, plots, presentations for international
meetings, publications, peer reviews, press kits, and reference materials documenting
Mihalov's solar physics contributions to Pioneers 6 through 11, Pioneer 12 (Pioneer Venus
Orbiter), and the Galileo Probe during his career as a research scientist at the NASA Ames
Research Center.
Background
John Donald Mihalov was born in Los Angeles on December 28, 1937. His father was John
Mihalov, and his mother was Alice Alma Lydia (Wagner) Mihalov. Little information is
available about his early years.