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LaPaz, Lincoln was born on February 12, 1897 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Son of Charles Melchior and Emma Josephine (Strode) LaP.
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researcher Mathematics and astronomy educator
LaPaz, Lincoln was born on February 12, 1897 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Son of Charles Melchior and Emma Josephine (Strode) LaP.
AB, Fairmount College, 1920; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1922; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1928.
Instructor mathematics, Fairmount College, Wichita, 1917-1920;
instructor mathematics, Harvard University, Boston, 1921-1922;
instructor mathematics, Dartmouth College, 1922-1925;
National Research Council fellow, University of Chicago, 1928-1929;
instructor mathematics, University of Chicago, 1929-1930;
assistant professor mathematics, Ohio State University, 1930-1935;
associate professor, Ohio State University, 1935-1942;
professor, Ohio State University, 1942-1945;
research mathematician, Office f Science Research and Development, 1943-1944;
professor, head department mathematics and astronomy, director Institute Meteoritics, U. New Mexico, 1945-1953;
director division astronomy, U. New Mexico, 1953-1962;
director Institute Meteoritics, U. New Mexico, 1953-1966. Technical director operations analysis section Headquarters 2d Air Force, 1944-1945. Consultant Research and Development Board Air Material Command, O.S.I. (IG) United States Air Force.
Director Institute Meteoritics surveys of meteoritic shower, February 18, 1948, Furnas County, Nebraska and Norton County, Kansas resulting in discovery and excavation of largest aerolite of either witnessed or unwitnessed fall found in world at that time.
(Meteorites are the real tokens of space. They are samples...)
Fellow Meteoritical Society (president 1941-1946, representative to American Association for the Advancement of Science). Member American Mathematics Society, Math Association American, British Mathematics Association (life), International Astron Union (commn 22 1950-1958), American Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, British Astronomical Association (life), Astronomical Society of the Pacific, American Meteor Society, New Mexico Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi.
Married Leota Rae Butler, June 18, 1922. Children: Leota Jean, Mary Strode.