Background
Sterne, Theodore Eugene was born on November 23, 1907 in New York City. Son of Eugene Washington and Dora (Kohn) Sterne.
Sterne, Theodore Eugene was born on November 23, 1907 in New York City. Son of Eugene Washington and Dora (Kohn) Sterne.
Bachelor of Science, Princeton, 1928. Doctor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1931. National Research Council fellow physics, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1931-1933.
Master of Arts, Harvard, 1956.
Research associate Harvard Observatory, 1933-1934, astronomer, 1934-1941, lecturer astrophysics, tutor Harvard, 1934-1941, Simon Newcomb professor astrophysics, 1956-1959. Chief ballistician Ballistic Research laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland., 1946-1956, chief special prob. branch, 1941-1945, comptng. laboratory, 1945-1947, 52-53, term. ballistic laboratory, 1946-1952, science adviser to director, 1953-1956. Consultant operations research office Johns Hopkins, 1954-1959.
Staff member Research Analysis Corporation, 1961-1965, Institute Defense Analyses, Arlington, Virginia, 1965-1970.
Associate director Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution, 1956-1959. Staff member of Johns Hopkins University Operations Research Office, Bethesda, Maryland, 1959-1961, acting chief Air Defense division, 1960-1961.
Served from first lieutenant to lieutenant colonel, Field Artillery, Ordnance Corps, Army of the United States, 1941-1946. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physics Society, Royal Astronomical Society. Member American Astronomical Society, Astronomical Society of Pacific Operations Research Society of America, Cat Fanciers of Washington (president 1966-1967), also Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Grace Isabel DeRoo, August 5, 1932. Married second Lois Cremins Isenberg, on November 28, 1964. Children: Theodore Drummond, John Robert.