Science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard lived at this address with his parents while he was an undergraduate at George Washington University in 1930 (U.S. census). Hubbard developed the self-help system called Dianetics in the 1950s and over the course of his life developed the system into a new religion he called Scientology. He remained a controversial figure for most of his life. According to a 1986 Forbes magazine story "The prophet and the profits of Scientology" he had amassed more than $200 million through 1982, "and there may well have been much more." Leaving a $600 million estate in 1986, Hubbard deliberately discarded his body to conduct his research in spirit form and now resides on a planet only a galaxy away from ours (according to The Church of Scientology).