Edgar Everhart III Papers

Edgar Everhart III was born in on June 20, 1920 in Akron, Ohio, the oldest son of Eleanor and Edgar Everhart Jr. He married his college sweetheart, Elizabeth "Libby", in 1942. He graduated from Oberlin College that same year. He was recruited for a staff member position of the radiation laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He later earned his doctorate from MIT in Physics, in 1948. He became a Physics Instructor at Dartmouth College, and then he went on to the University of Connecticut as Assistant, then Associate, and then full Professor of Physics, where he stayed until 1969. He and his wife moved the family to Denver and he began work with the Univeristy of Denver as a Professor of Physics. He also designed and constricted telescopes from his home in Bailey, Colorado. He took photographs of comets and other space objects from his home, and they were often featured in Astronomy magazines. As Professor of Physics, he gradually modified the department into the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He continued to teaching at DU until 1984. He continued as Director of Chamberlin Observatory until 1987. He died on January 14, 1990 in Bailey, Colorado.