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William E. Carter was born on October 16, 1939, in Steubenville, Ohio, United States. He is the son of Donald and H. Virginia Carter.
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In 1961 William E. Carter received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
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In 1965 William E. Carter obtained a Master of Science degree in geodetic science from Ohio State University.
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In 1973 William E. Carter gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in civil engineering from the University of Arizona.
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The author chronicles the remarkable scientific story of America's first great contribution to astronomy - solving the problem of "variation" in latitude.
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2002
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Recounts Simon Newcomb's climb from a penniless immigrant to the most renowned American astronomer of the 19th century, with never before published details of his family and professional lives, including his friendship with Congressman, and later President, James A. Garfield.
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2006
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In analyzing signals collected by the NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), designed to detect gravity waves propagating through the space-time continuum from such natural events as supernovas, astrophysicist Tom McWade unexpectedly discovers that beings on another planet are trying to communicate with the residents of planet Earth. The United States launches a secret program to build a gravity wave communication station, in a near-Earth solar orbit. The gravity wave station enables nearly instantaneous wide bandwidth communications between humans and the far more scientifically and technologically advanced tellerians, residents of planet Azura,. When Tom is directed by the President of the United States to accompany his twin brother Ted, a Catholic priest, to the Vatican, and reveal the existence of the tellerians to an international gathering of religious leaders, emotions and events quickly spiral out of control. Driven by the dream that he might one day be elected Pope, Ted becomes the central figure in a scheme to gain access to the gravity communicator, and use knowledge secretly obtained from the tellerians to increase and secure power for the Roman Catholic Church. Tom is equally determined to use his discovery of the tellerians to help humans conquer their irrational superstitions and religious myths, and move beyond persecuting, killing, and waging war on one another for differences in beliefs. Only time will tell which of the brothers will prevail.
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2013
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In October 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. Having developed a rocket that could carry a satellite into orbit, it was only a matter of time before they would have intercontinental ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads to targets anywhere on the globe. The US moved to counter the perceived threat, launching a program to build hundreds of hardened missile sites, and submarines armed with missiles, that could respond within minutes to an attack on the US or its allies. President Eisenhower knew that much of the US military space program would necessarily be cloaked in secrecy, but he wanted the scientific exploration of space to be open to as many people, of all nationalities, as possible. In July 1958 he established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Eleven years later, in 1969, hundreds of millions of people around the world watched American astronauts walk on the surface of the Moon and return safely to Earth, on live television.
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2018
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William E. Carter was born on October 16, 1939, in Steubenville, Ohio, United States. He is the son of Donald and H. Virginia Carter.
In 1961 William E. Carter received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. In 1965 he obtained a Master of Science degree in geodetic science from Ohio State University. In 1973 Carter gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in civil engineering from the University of Arizona.
From 1961 to 1969 William E. Carter was a United States Geodetic Officer at the United States Air Force. From 1969 to 1972 he was a research geodesist of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona. From 1973 to 1976 Carter served as a research associate of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. From 1977 to 1981 he worked as a research geodesist and chief of Gravity, Astronomy, and Space Geodesy Division at the National Geodetic Survey (NGS).
From 1981 to 1991 Carter was a chief of the Advanced Technology Branch at Geosciences Laboratory (GL), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and from 1992 to 1996 he was chief of Geosciences Laboratory (GL) in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1996 to 2010 Carter served as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida. Since 2010 he has been a research professor and senior research engineer at the University of Houston.
He wrote Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation with his daughter, Merri Sue Carter, an astronomer with the United States Naval Observatory. His most recent book, Taking the Measure of Planet Earth: From Kilometers to Millimeters in the First Half Century of the Space Age (2018).
(In analyzing signals collected by the NASA Laser Interfer...)
2013(Recounts Simon Newcomb's climb from a penniless immigrant...)
2006(The author chronicles the remarkable scientific story of ...)
2002(In October 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first a...)
2018At the University of Houston (UH), William E. Carter's research deals with the refinement and application of airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) to a wide range of scientific studies. The UH research team recently used airborne lidar to find and map the ruins of previously unknown ancient cities in the rain forests of Honduras.
William E. Carter is a member of the International Astronomical Union, a Fellow of the the International Association of Geodesy, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, the American Astronomical Society, the American Geophysical Union.
On January 16, 1960, William E. Carter married Marilyn Johnson. They have three children: Terri Lynn, Merri Sue, Pamela.