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Thornton Leigh Page (Rhodes 1934)

Yale University. Rhodes Scholar. Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society.

1982 to 1988 - Part-time instructor U. Houston, Clear Lake.[1]

1976 to 1993 - Contract astrophysicist, Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[1]

1971, began working for the United States Naval Research Laboratory until his retirement in 1976.

1970 to 1976 - Research associate, E.O. Hulburt Center Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington.[1]

1968 to 1970 - Research associate, Manned Spacecraft Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[1]

1968 to 1970 - National Academy Sciences senior research associate.[1]

1965 to 1967 - Smithsonian research associate Harvard Observatory.[1]

1961, he was seriously injured in an automobile accident whee he broke several bonds and lost sight in one eye[1,8].

1960 to 1962 - Member for Operations Research Society American to National Research Council.[1]

1959 to 1972 - Member research advising committee United AircraftCorp.[1]

1959 to 1971 - Director, Van Vleck Observatory[1]

1958 to 1971 - Professor astronomy, Wesleyan University, Middletown.[1]

1953, as an astronomer for the ORO, he became embroiled in the controversery involving Unidentified Flying Obects. (see Robertson Panel)

1952 - First editor of Journal of the Operations Research Society of America.

1951 to 1958 - Worked for the U.S. Army Operations Research Office (ORO)

1950 to 1958 - Deputy Director, Operations Research Office, Johns Hopkins.[1]

1946 to 1950 - Served as a professor of astrophysics for the University of Chicago.

WW2 - 1941 to 1943 - Physicist, Naval Ordnance Laboratory.[1]

1938 to 1950 - From instructor to assistant professor astronomy, University of Chicago.[1]

1937 to 1938 - Chief assistant, University of Oxford Observatory.[1]

Died 2 Jan 1996. Aged 82. Event + 32y1m11s (11,729 days)

Note: Wife Lou Williams Page died 1 year later. (1997)

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