John Joseph O'Neill (1889–1953), of the

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, along with

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of the New York Times. Howard Blakeslee of AP, Gobind Behari Lal of

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and David Dietz of

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, won the 1937

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for Reporting "for their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University." He was a self-taught journalist whose formal education did not go beyond public schooling. He is also the author of ''Prodigal genius; the life of Nikola Tesla'' (1944), which was published in 18 editions in German and English.WorldCat Identities
/ref> and several other non-technical books on 20th century science. In 1953 he observed a feature on the Moon, on the western shore of Mare Crisium, which he interpreted as a giant natural bridge, but it turned out to be an illusion. Now this illusion is known as O'Neill's Bridge.

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