Dr George Alcorn earned the BA degree in physics from Occidental College where he accepted a four year scholarship. During his undergraduate studies he earned eight letters in football and baseball. His MS and Ph.D degrees were received from Howard University in Washington, DC .He was elected to the national honor societies, Sigma Pi Sigma and Sigma Xi.

In addition to NASA, Dr. Alcorn worked in private industry (IBM, Perkin Elmer, and Philco Ford) in R&D with over 20 inventions patented and/or published leading to numerous awards won. For over 25 years he has served as an adjunct full professor teaching physics and electrical engineering .He has served as the IBM Visiting Professor promoting advanced technologies to universities .He specialized in teaching modern creative techniques for device conception and device fabrication at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Dr Alcorn was a pioneer in using particle techniques like plasmas and sputtering methods to make high performance semiconductor devices.

In his over 16 years of management at NASA,Dr Alcorn has served as Deputy Project Manager Space Station Advanced Development ,Chief of the Technology Commercialization Office ,Project Manager for the Airborne Lidar Topographical Mapping System (ALTMS) and managed the NASA Technology Integration Division .He also served as Deputy Program manager of the center's Code R research program.

Dr Alcorn has received a NASA medal for his work in recruiting minority scientists and engineers and helping small businesses have successful research programs. He was a winner of Government Executives Magazine's prestigious (Federal Government) Technology Leadership Award for the Airborne Lidar Topographical Mapping System (1999). He served as project manager for that endeavor .At IBM he was a high second plateau inventor and at Goddard he was Inventor of the Year .He served as an original mentor and organizer of the UMBC Myerhoff Program which had the goal to produce talented minority Ph.Ds in science and mathematics.

In 2001 Dr Alcorn was awarded special congressional recognition by Congresswoman Donna M. Christian-Christensen (D-VI) for his efforts in helping Virgin Islands businesses through application of NASA technology and knowledge of technology programs .

In the past, his Saturdays have been dedicated to teaching children. For over 17 year, as a founder of the Saturday Academy he has taught such courses as C++ to bright inner city Jr High School Students.