Lynn D Poole was the creator and host of an early US science television program, The Johns Hopkins Science Review, and the author of more than 20 popular science books.
12 Facts About Lynn Poole
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Lynn Poole received his bachelor's degree from Western Reserve University in 1936, and a master's degree in 1937.
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Lynn Poole began producing the weekly, live television program The Johns Hopkins Science Review in 1948.
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Lynn Poole was not educated as a scientist, but he nonetheless wrote most of the programs, and acted as its on-air host and interviewer.
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Lynn Poole then visited England to film a three-part series "An American Looks at Science in England".
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Lynn Poole occasionally did demonstrations himself, such as climbing a TV transmitter mast or eating a grasshopper on live television.
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Lynn Poole produced three successor series through 1960, when Johns Hopkins ended production.
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Lynn Poole documented the techniques he developed for television programming devoted to science in a 1950 book, Science via Television.
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Lynn Poole was a prolific author, mostly of popular and young adult books about science.
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Lynn Poole retired from Johns Hopkins in 1965, but continued his writing career.
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Lynn Poole died of a heart attack in 1969, at the age of 58.
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Gray Lynn Poole wrote at least four more books that were published during the 1970s.