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URL: https://www.wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=William_J_Hooper Result: positive. This is a dissident-science wiki. Its biographical data are its own compilation and no sources are given for the dates.

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  • Full name William James Hooper, born 25 July 1895 in Iron Mountain, MI, died February 1971.
  • The Burridge item on Scribd (seen only as a Google snippet) gives the date as 14 Feb 1971: "Dr. Hooper passed away suddenly on February 14, 1971".
  • So Hooper died before US 3,610,971 was granted (5 Oct 1971), before its Certificate of Correction (16 May 1972) and before US 3,656,013 was granted (11 Apr 1972).
  • Degrees: B.A. 1922, M.A. 1923, Ph.D. 1925, all UC Berkeley. Thesis: "Critical Ionization Potentials by Positive Rays in Hydrogen". The resume in the folder says M.A. and doctorate both 1925, so the M.A. year differs.
  • NSF fellowships while at Principia: University of Minnesota (1953) and Wisconsin State College (1956).
  • President and Director of Research, Electrodynamic Gravity, Inc., 1964-1971. The Florida corporation was filed in 1969 (see 2026-10-04-sunbiz.md).
  • Earlier articles:
  • "Dust Deposit on Lath and Plaster Walls", Physics 1(1):61-68, July 1931 (a mainstream physics journal);
  • "Unipolar Electromagnetic Induction", an unabridged account of the APS paper "Rotation of Flux about a Magnetic Axis", APS meeting, St. Louis, 25-28 March 1963. This is a new primary item on the moving-flux claim (claim 1) and is not in the folder.
  • Consulting: Wood Conversion Co. (Cloquet, MN) and Glass Printing Press Co. (Chicago).
  • Books: Experimental Notes of Dr. William J. Hooper (1991) and New Horizons (1974).
  • Links to the Hartman review at web.archive.org (fetched; see 2026-10-04-internet-archive.md).

The 1963 APS paper is also cited in: - DePalma's N-machine papers (ref [15]) [web] https://www.psychotronics.org (seen only as a Google snippet); - the patent US5587618A, "Direct current homopolar machine" (seen only as a Google snippet). Hooper's unipolar-induction work therefore enters the homopolar / N-machine literature (related work, priority 3).