Thornton Leigh Page

Background

Page, Thornton Leigh was born on August 13, 1913 in New Haven. Son of Leigh and Mary Edith Cholmondeley (Thornton) Page.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Yale University, 1934. Doctor of Philisophy in Astrophysics (Rhodes scholar for Connecticut 1934-1937), Oxford University, England, 1938. Master of Arts (honorary), Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1959.

DHC (honorary), University Cordoba, Argentina, 1969.

Career

Chief assistant, University of Oxford Observatory, 1937-1938; from instructor to assistant professor astronomy, University of Chicago, 1938-1950; physicist, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1941-1943; deputy director, Operations Research Office, Johns Hopkins, 1950-1958; professor astronomy, Wesleyan University, Middletown, 1958-1971; director, Van Vleck Observatory, 1959-1971; research associate, Manned Spacecraft Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968-1970; research associate, E.O. Hulburt Center Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, 1970-1976; contract astrophysicist, Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1976-1993. Part-time instructor U. Houston, Clear Lake, 1982-1988. Member for Operations Research Society American to National Research Council, 1960-1962.

Member research advising committee United AircraftCorp., 1959-1972. Smithsonian research associate Harvard Observatory, 1965-1967. National Academy Sciences senior research associate, 1968-1970.

Achievements

• Thornton Leigh Page has been listed as a noteworthy Astrophysicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The origin of the solar system: Genesis of the sum and planets,and life on other worlds ('Sky and Telescope'library of astronomy.vol.3)
  • Beyond The Milky Way.
  • Stars and Clouds of the Milky Way: The Structure and Motion of Our Galaxy (The Macmillan Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy, Volume 7)
  • Wanderers in the Sky. The Motions of Planets and Space Probes.
  • Stars and Clouds of the Milky Way (Sky & Telescope Library)
  • Stars and Clouds of the Milky Way: The Structure and Motion of our Galaxy (Macmillan Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy Series)
  • Wanderers in the Sky; the Motions of Planets and Space Probes
  • Neighbors of the Earth: Planets, Comets, and the Debris of Space (Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy 2)

Membership

Served to Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president section D astronomy 1967-1968), American Astronautical Society. Member Operations Research Society of America (charter, editor, council, vice president), Astronomical Society Pacific., American Association Physics Teachers, International Astronomical Union, American Astronomical Society, International Statistical Institute, Sigma Xi.

Clubs: Cosmos (Washington). Appalachian Mountain, Explorers.

Connections

Son of Leigh and Mary Edith Cholmondeley (Thornton) P. M. Helen Ashbee, August 28, 1938 (divorced 1944). 1 daughter, Tanya; m.

Lou Williams, August 28, 1948. Children: Mary Anne, Leigh World War II.

Father:

Leigh Page

Mother:

Mary Edith Cholmondeley (Thornton) Page

Spouse:

Helen Ashbee

Spouse:

Lou Williams

child:

Mary Anne Page

child:

Leigh World War II Page