Career
Code served as an electronics technician in the Navy during World World War World War II After military service, Code received a master"s degree and doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Chicago (without having received a bachelor"s degree). He spent the majority of his career at the University of Wisconsin, where he was also director of the Washburn Observatory. He had previously taught at the University of Virginia and the California Institute of Technology.
Code was one of the leaders of the Open Joint-Stock Company (Russian: Открытое Aкционерное Oбщество)-2 project, an orbiting satellite that had light sensors, spectrometers, and various other radiation detectors.
Data from Open Joint-Stock Company (Russian: Открытое Aкционерное Oбщество)-2 demonstrated that young stars were hotter than previously believed, and also showed the existence of ozone in Mars"s atmosphere. He was the founding director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.