Gordon Allen Newkirk Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gordon Allen Newkirk Jr.

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1928

Place of Birth: Orange, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1985

Profession: astrophysicist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gordon Allen Newkirk Jr.
(September 12, 1928 – December 21, 1985) was an American astrophysicist. Newkirk was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby West Orange, living there throughout his youth until he left for college.
He was the only child of Mildred (née Fleming) and Gordon Allen Newkirk, who worked as an electrical engineer for Public Service Electric and Gas.
West Orange was the home of the Edison Laboratories and Newkirk grew up near the home of Thomas Edison in Llewellyn Park.
He attended West Orange High School.He graduated from Harvard University in 1950 and completed his Ph.D.
in astrophysics from the University of Michigan in 1953.
In 1955 he began working at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado.
From 1968 through 1979, he was director of the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) and associate director of NCAR.
He was also a teacher and adjunct professor at the University of Colorado in the Department of AstroGeophysics and the Department of Physics and Astrophysics.
He married Nancy Buck in 1956, and raised three daughters in Boulder, Colorado.