Public Obituary
Dr. Robert
Duncan-Enzmann was born in Peking, China in 1924 to an American mother and an
Austrian father. He passed away on October 19, 2020 and is survived by his
wife, six children, and fourteen grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his
beloved sister, Jane. He served in the Navy during WW II as a pilot and
navigator, receiving a Purple Heart. He was discharged with honor.
Dr. Enzmann
came to the USA for the first time at the age of five. He grew up in
Massachusetts and Maine. He earned doctorates in medicine and geology and
attained three master’s degrees. He conducted geological work all over the
world, especially in Southwest Africa. He authored several books; his
translations of ice age inscriptions were published in 2013. Dr. Enzmann is
best known for his work in the pre-NASA space and military weapons industry,
working with Drs. Goddard, Bussard, and von Braun, to lay the foundation for
landing men on the Moon. He worked for Beryllium Corp, Avco, and Raytheon, and
taught at several Boston universities.
A
Great Man Is Gone
Our
Memorial to Doc E
On Tuesday,
October 19, 2020 the world lost one of the most intelligent minds to have lived
in centuries. Dr. Enzmann is now preserved in Suspended Animation, at a
cryogenics facility in Detroit. One day, he told us, he will be cloned or even
revived, providing that humanity has defeated old age. At least this was his
hope in life.
Robert Duncan-Enzmann was born in Peking, China at a time just before the electrification of the city, before the introduction of the motorcar. His father, Ernst von Enzmann, was an officer in Franz Josef’s army. He escaped from prison in Siberia by walking to China; his mother, Florence Goodman was a native of Maine, USA. As a Johns Hopkins graduate she was on the Peking Union Medical College staff. Ernst and Florence met there and married.
Robert attended British Embassy schools where he was taught reading, writing, composition, arithmetic (emphasizing mental computation), history, astronomy, and navigationally based geography. The school regularly exchanged students with France and Germany beginning with Kindergarten.
He has achieved degrees in engineering, physics, medicine, and law, and has geological experience on every continent. He is fluent in many languages, including English, Chinese, German, Arabic, and French. He can also read several ancient languages. Dr. Robert Duncan-Enzmann’s extensive travel, education, and knowledge of languages were of great benefit to his life-long effort translating ice age inscriptions, which were published in 2013. His accomplishments in planetology and space mission planning are too numerous to list.
Doc E lived
almost one hundred years. He witnessed a century of technological advance, from
life without electricity to landing men on the Moon. He saw the invention of
the light bulb, the radio, television, cars, computers, missiles, rockets, and
space shuttles. He worked with von Braun to develop the most powerful engine
ever devised – the Saturn Five.
What is best
known in Doc E’s portfolio is perhaps the Enzmann Starship. An interstellar
ship based on a design that Dr. Bussard and Dr. Enzmann worked on – the Orion –
Dr. Enzmann’s starship advanced the Orion’s capabilities to that of
interstellar travel. Yet, what is not as well known about Dr. Enzmann is the
vast area of influence his knowledge had on our world. In some circles he was
known as the Missile Lord, as his work in weapons and radar has resulted in an
unparalleled military capability to defend our nation.
One of the
most outstanding achievements was his development of the APChE (Automated
Program Checkout Equipment) program for prelaunch. Applied to the Patriot
Missile, it is now used to launch everything that leaves the planet. FREA
published an article about this in ENDEAVOR (spring
2019 premier issue, page 12).
Another area
of knowledge that will continue to enrich humanity is his expertise in history.
His magnum opus, which FREA intends to complete for him, is to combine all
known history timelines into one. From astronomical events to zoological
evolution, Doc E has notes, lists, timelines, images, and documents which will
be merged into one manuscript. He explained that this is the only way to
correct accounts of history that are contradicted by other accounts, and to
fill in the gaps in our knowledge of Earth’s complete history.
The histories
of astronomical events, geological events, agriculture, human and animal
migrations, sociology, religion, animal life, oceanography, climatology, tools,
housing, medicine, pottery, hunting and fishing, weapons, navigation, and much
more have all been researched and detailed notes taken. Not only will FREA
compile and publish the manuscript, but we have invested in an online timeline
which allows entry of events over millions of years, yet in detail of day and
time when needed.
Included in
the History Archive are the extensive documents generated by his work translating
ice age inscriptions. Like the Rosetta Stone, these translations have opened
our ability to read the pictorial language of 12,500 BC, and of those older and
more recent. The same style of language was used in 16,000 BC at Altamira and
is the foundation of much more recent languages. Ice Age Language,
translations, vocabulary, and grammar was published in 2013.
Doc E earned
a Doctorate in geology from Upsala University. He did field work on every
continent, especially southwest Africa. This foundation made him valuable to
the military and space tech industries, and he spent many years researching and
creating beryllium, a substance with specific uses in both areas. FREA’s Museum
Archive has many samples of his efforts to create this substance. Doc E understood
that if we were to explore planets and asteroids, geology was an essential area
of knowledge to have. So why did the USA wait until the last Moon landing to
send a geologist?
In the Rhodes
Fairbridge Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, Doc E published his Expanded Order
Theory. It is a fundamental area of study for those interested in Cosmology.
Dr. Enzmann’s
medical doctorate benefitted from his geological knowledge, especially that
which pertained to the natural formation of hexagrams and pentagrams, which he
said were valuable in diagnostic observation. This was the basis of his thesis,
which FREA hopes to publish.
Doc E started
writing at age five and has done so ever since. Educated in RAJ schools in
China and Germany, he had many unusual interests for a young boy, one of which
was rocket fuel. Taught math calculations done mentally, languages, and
history, he gained an education taught by teachers who were in their 80s, who
were also taught by teachers in their 80s – providing an education which
covered two centuries of his teachers’ personal experience as well as the
academic subjects. He learned King’s English in the RAJ schools and Chinese on
the streets of Peking. By adulthood Doc E could read and or write over a dozen
languages.
Doc E also
told stories. Many stories. Some were about history, told as verisimilitudes,
some were technological sci-fi. Some were about his life. Without these stories
the Enzmann Universe would not exist.
His stories
grew from the reality of his knowledge, his work, and his futurist vision.
RealScience Fiction is based on hard, workable, feasible science. Doc E wants
readers to immerse themselves in a possible world of starships, and his stories
tell us what kind of life that would be. We offer these stories here, in the
Enzmann Chronicles, for your enjoyment and inspiration. Starships could have
been reality in our current century, had the powers that be allowed the Grand
Design to manifest. Alas, they did not.
In story and
in real life, Dr. Robert Duncan-Enzmann and Joanna Enzmann changed the face of
our country – changed the face of the world. Their work in space engineering,
missile defense, radar, and computer programming is the foundation of every
rocket and missile that leaves the ground, and every defense against airborne
attack. It is the foundation on which the USA sent men to the Moon.
Here is a brief list of his educational and professional accomplishments:
British Embassy School,
Peking, China; WW II USNAC; AB Harvard; ScB Hon., London; Standard, MSc,
Witwatersrand; Nat Sci Scholar; MIT course work; Royal Inst. Uppsala Swed.;
PhD/MD Cuidad Juarez, Mex.; Pacific Radar: Greenland Gap-filler, Canada DEW-line;
SAGE; Pacific PRESS; California ATLAS, BMEWS; ICBM; Kwajalein Atoll ICBM
intercept; TRADEX; Mars Voyager; Cryptography.
At FREA our
mission is to publish the vast amount of writing and imagery Doc E produced in
his more than nine decades of life. The Archive contains not just his stories,
but sciences and history as well – translations of ice age inscriptions,
timelines, cosmology, astronomy, medicine, geology, radar, physics,
mathematics, planetology, engineering, archaeology, and more.
The Archive
also includes hundreds of objects from his life, his travels, and his work on
every continent. FREA is founding a museum and gallery as part of the Enzmann
Legacy.
His widow
asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be sent to the nonprofit that
publishes Dr. Enzmann’s work: Foundation for Research of the Enzmann Archive,
Inc.
Donations can
be sent online via freafoundation.space or by PayPal to freafoundation@gmail.com.
Checks can be mailed to 70 North Street, Grafton, MA 01519.
