Walter McAfee
American astronomer
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Walter McAfee's Degrees
- Bachelors Physics Colgate University
- Masters Physics Howard University
- PhD Physics Cornell University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Samuel McAfee was an American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world's first lunar radar echo experiments with Project Diana. Personal life McAfee was born in Ore City, Texas to African-American parents Luther F. McAfee and Susie A. Johnson; he was the second of their nine children. At three months old, the family moved to Marshall, Texas, where McAfee would grow up and attend undergraduate school. He graduated high school in Marshall in 1930, and later noted that his high school physics and chemistry teacher, Freeman Prince Hodge, was a great influence of his. Following the completion of his master's degree, McAfee took a job in 1939 teaching science and mathematics in Columbus, Ohio. In 1941, he married Viola Winston, who taught French at the same junior high school in Columbus, Ohio where McAfee taught. McAfee and Winston had two daughters. McAfee died at his home in South Belmar, New Jersey, on February 18, 1995.
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