About Thornton Leigh Page
Lived 1913 – 1996 (aged 82). Thornton Leigh Page was an American astronomer and military officer.
Early life Thornton Page was born in New Haven, CT on 13 August 1913 to Leigh Page, a physics instructor at Yale University, and Mary Page, trained as a nurse. later earning a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1938. He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Personal life In late 1961, he was seriously injured in an automobile accident where he broke several bones and lost sight in one eye. He died in Houston on 2 January 1996.
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Who was Thornton Leigh Page?
American professor of astronomy
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Thornton Leigh Page was born on 13 August 1913 in New Haven.
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Thornton Leigh Page died on 2 January 1996 in Houston.
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Thornton Leigh Page was an astronomer and military officer.
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