Andrew Joseph Galambos was born in Hungary in 1924. He immigrated with his parents to America, and grew up in New York City. in 1942 he enlisted in the Army, and found himself in Europe during World War II amid the bloody rubble of the once great civilizations, and at the same time learned of the deaths of his Jewish aunts, uncles and cousins in what would later become known as the Holocaust.

After the war, returning to New York, he completed his education in physics and mathematics, and in 1952 he moved to Los Angeles to work in the new technology of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). Six years later, he was an astrophysicist for the a company which later became TRW Space Technology Laboratories.

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnick in 1957, most of the engineers at TRW were unfamiliar with the concepts of artificial earth satellites. Galambos became a respected mentor by explaining ballistics and astronautics to them in a series of noon-time lectures.

Around 1960, he left the aerospace industry (which he later disaffectionately called "the boondoggle") and taught briefly at a College.

In 1961, he founded his own institute to promote a concept he'd been developing over several years, which he called The Science of Volition. He gave public lectures. It was the decade of rebellion in America, and people were searching for new ideas, and thousands of students passed through his courses over the next twenty years to learn about his possible science of society.
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