Harry Kloor facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Harry Kloor
Harry Kloor at Comic-Con 2009
Other names	"Doc"
Education	BA, BA, Southern Oregon State College M.Ed Southern Oregon University PhD, PhD Purdue University
Occupation	Scientist Educator Author Inventor Screenwriter Film producer Film director National Technology Policy Advisor X Prize Chief Technology Officer
Employer	Co-founder Universal Consultants
Known for	Simultaneous PhDs in Chemistry and Physics
Title	Doctor

Harry "Doc" Kloor is an American scientist, film producer, director, writer, and entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is someone who starts and runs a business. Kloor was the first person to earn two PhDs at the same time. He got both degrees in Physics and Chemistry from Purdue University. Because of this amazing achievement, he was named ABC Person of the Week in August 1994.

Scientific Work

Harry Kloor is the CEO of two companies, Beyond Imagination and Jupiter 9 Productions. He was also the chief science officer (CSO) for a company called StemCC. This company was later bought by another company.

Kloor helped start the Rocket Racing League. He was also one of the first five people on the team that created the Ansari XPRIZE. The XPRIZE is a group that offers big prizes for new inventions and breakthroughs. He also helped start Singularity University, where he still helps with media advice. In 2009, Kloor taught at the first summer session of Singularity University. He was also the main science advisor for the XPRIZE Organization. He gave advice to the XPRIZE Chairman and CEO, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, about science and technology.

In 2011, Kloor was one of the leaders for a study called the DARPA 100 Year Starship. This study looked at how humans might travel to other stars in the future.

Kloor also helped start a company called Universal Consultants. There, he was the main science consultant. He helped clients develop new technology, get patents, and create important policies. His clients included NASA, the National Security Agency, the US Senate, and Jet Propulsion Laboratories.

Film and TV Work

Director, writer, producer, inventor, and scientist Harry Kloor

Harry Kloor is a talented writer, director, and producer for movies and TV shows. He wrote for the popular TV series Star Trek: Voyager. He was also the story editor for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict. He helped create and develop this series.

Kloor has received money from the government to create TV and film projects. He has worked with NASA and other government agencies on these projects. In 2010, he finished his first full-length movie. He helped direct, produce, and write Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey. This was an animated action adventure sci-fi movie. In 2014, he helped write and produce a film called ILL WIND. This movie was based on a book by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason.

Movies and TV Shows

Here are some of the projects Harry Kloor has worked on:

As producer

• Earth: Final Conflict (20 episodes, 1997–1998)
• Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010) (He also directed and wrote this movie)
• ILL WIND (2015-2017) (He also wrote this movie)

As writer

• Earth: Final Conflict (1 episode in 1997, and helped with 15 other stories)

  The episode was "Scorpion's Dream" (1997)

• Star Trek: Voyager (6 episodes, 1997–1998)

  "Real Life" (1997)

  "The Raven" (1997)

  "Scientific Method" (1997)

  "Drone" (1998)

  "False Profits" (1998)

• Godzilla: The Series (1 episode, 1999)

  The episode was "Competition" (1999)

• Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
• ILL WIND (2015)
• Carson of Venus (an unproduced movie script based on a 1937 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs)