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| Born | Albert Bruce Mainwaring February 23, 1927 Roxborough, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | September 6, 2022 (aged 95) Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Residence | Lower Merion, PA, United States |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Electric Universe |
Albert Bruce Mainwaring (February 23, 1927 – September 6, 2022) was an American manufacturing executive, philanthropist, and patron of alternative-science research. A longtime supporter of the Electric Universe model and of the work of Immanuel Velikovsky, he founded the Mainwaring Archive Foundation to preserve the papers of researchers who challenged mainstream scientific consensus.
Biography
Mainwaring was born on February 23, 1927, in Roxborough, Pennsylvania. He served in the United States Naval Reserve during World War II and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He joined his father's firm, the Uniform Tubes Corporation, a manufacturer of metal tubing, and later became its president. He subsequently founded two additional companies, UTI Corporation and Micro-Coax, Inc., which produced metal tubing and related products; tubing made by his firms was reported to have been carried aboard an Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.
He was a prominent benefactor of the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as a trustee and, later, trustee emeritus. His gifts supported the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, including the Mainwaring Collections Storage Facility, along with Penn Libraries, the School of Nursing, and other university programs. He also served as chair of the board of International House at Penn.
Mainwaring lived in the Lower Merion area of suburban Philadelphia and later at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where he died on September 6, 2022, at the age of 95. He was survived by his wife of 74 years, Margaret (Peggy) Redfield Mainwaring, and their children and grandchildren.
Work
Mainwaring had a long-standing interest in the catastrophist and cosmological ideas associated with Immanuel Velikovsky. He served on the board of the Foundation for Studies of Modern Science (FOSMOS), a Velikovskian organization active from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Following a later conference on Velikovskian themes organized by David Talbott, Mainwaring established the Mainwaring Archive Foundation in 2000–2001, a non-profit based in Helena, Montana, that described its purpose as exploring alternatives to scientific dogma and collecting the papers of researchers inspired by Velikovsky.
The foundation's holdings included extensive materials relating to the Electric Universe concept, notably the papers of Ralph Juergens, who proposed a model of an electrically powered Sun, and of the astronomer Earl Milton. Through this archival and financial support, Mainwaring became a patron of dissident cosmological research over several decades. The foundation was dissolved in 2022, the year of his death.
Honors
- Alumni Award of Merit, University of Pennsylvania (1987)
- Episcopal Academy 1785 Bowl Award (2003)