Background
Wylie, Lloyd Ritchie was born on April 12, 1892 in Idana, Kansas, United States. Son of Oliver Moses and Mary Ida (Ritchie) Wylie.
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Lloyd Ritchie Wylie
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AB, Park College, 1914; student, University Chicago, 1915-1917; Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1922; Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1932.
Career
Assistant physicist, United States Bureau Standards, 1917-1920; instructor astronomy, Northwestern University, 1920-1924; assistant professor mathematics, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1924-1926; assistant, associate professor mathematics, Lake Forest College, 1928-1934; associate professor mathematics, Eastern Illinois State Teachers College, Charleston, 1934-1936; assistant astronomer, United States Navy Observatory, Washington, 1936-1939; associate astronomer, United States Navy Observatory, Washington, 1939-1944; astronomer, United States Navy Observatory, Washington, 1944-1946; professor astronomy, head department, Wittenberg College, from 1946; head department earth science, Wittenberg College, from 1951.
Achievements
Membership
With United States Army, 1917. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronomical Society, Ohio Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Phi Gamma Delta.
Connections
Married Eula Sauls Treadway, October 7, 1941.
