Background
Hammond, Charles Robert was born on November 7, 1915 in Table Grove, Illinois, United States. Son of Thomas Arthur and Julia Berniece (Parmenter) Hammond.
Hammond, Charles Robert was born on November 7, 1915 in Table Grove, Illinois, United States. Son of Thomas Arthur and Julia Berniece (Parmenter) Hammond.
Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1938.
Teaching assistant astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1936-1938; co-director, La Crescenta (California) Observatory, 1938-1940; organizer, library, education department, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California, 1940-1941; chief library, Vega Aircraft Corporation (subsidiary Lockheed), Burbank, California, 1941-1942; contract technicist, associate physicist, chief library division, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Washington, Silver Spring, Maryland., 1942-1946; manager technical publications, manager office services, library, Hartford-Empire Company (Emhart Corporation), various cities, Connecticut, 1946-1978; instructor and lecturer astronomy, U. Hartford (Hillyer College), Connecticut, 1957-1972. Instructor, lecturer astronomy St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, Tunxis Community College, Bristol, Connecticut, and Control Connecticut State University, New Britain, 1960-1982. Adjunct Professor astronomy Trinity College, Hartford, since 1981.
Historian First Church Christ Congressional, West Hartford, 1982-1992. Member Society for Research on Meteorites, Meteoritical Society, Astronomical Society of Pacific, British Astronomical Association, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Astronomical Society Greater Hartford (honorary, former president, Astronomer of Year 1993), Civitan Club Hartford (former president), Sigma Xi.
Married Jean Marguerite Jones, November 16, 1946. Children: Robert Arthur, Philip Warner.