Chapter 14: E. JOSEPH PIEL: Pioneering Technology in Science Education

Marine Colonel Emil Joseph Piel, known to science educators as Joe, is a New Jersey native. He was born in Fairview, New Jersey, April 17, 1918, lived there for the first five years of his life, moved to Edgewater, to Fort Lee, and then went into the service during World War II (WWII). When this chapter was being written, Joe was ninety-four years of age residing in West Caldwell, New Jersey in a cozy retirement cottage with his second wife. His first wife, who died in 1995, was in the Navy when they met and married in 1945. He commented during our telephone interview that email reception was difficult in his current environment, which meant this amazing technology innovator was back to using “snail mail” (personal communication, July 7, 2012).