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Eric Burgess
Eric Burgess (1920 – March 2005) was an English freelance consultant, lecturer and journalist, who wrote about the Pioneer program of space missions since the first tests in 1957. He was the science correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor in the period of many of the planetary probe launches, and was often the senior science reporter present at many of those events.
Burgess is credited with the original idea that the Pioneer probes should carry a message for extraterrestrial intelligences. He approached Carl Sagan about his idea,
Center (ERIC). It was recently ranked 11th of 67 higher education journals for both quality and esteem in a study by the University of Newcastle, Australia.
History.
"Higher Education Review" was established in 1968 by Cornmarket Press with Tyrrell Burgess as founding editor. In 1970, Burgess became publisher and led its publication until his death in 2009. The journal continues to be published by Tyrrell Burgess Associates.