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646: 634: 718: 682: 706: 25: 658: 694: 670: 222:. He is the son of Dorothy Land Divine. He attended Eaglebrook School and Hebron Academy. Divine was the winner of the Hebron senior prize for scholarship. He also received prizes for outstanding performance in chemistry and mathematics. Divine lettered in swimming, was on the staff of the school newspaper, and was a member of the 622: 798: 233:(MIT) in 1959. Divine was a varsity swimmer at MIT. He won 2 trophies and a medal in the interclass swimming championships where he came first in the backstroke event. He earned a M.S. in physics from 245:. Divine switched from astronomy to astrophysics while completing doctoral research at Caltech. In the summer of 1961, Divine worked in the planetary sciences division at the 808: 828: 823: 818: 788: 813: 803: 289:. He characterized meteoroid environments and other small interplanetary bodies including asteroid fragments. He worked missions including the 46: 33: 645: 783: 230: 117: 793: 778: 773: 753: 238: 127: 748: 249:. He earned a Ph.D. in astronomy at Caltech in 1965 where he developed the first numerical model of the evolution of 237:. Divine was awarded a full tuition scholarship and the position of research assistant to pursue graduate studies at 612: 321: 305: 833: 758: 274: 153: 325: 277:
for 25 years. His research yielded fundamental scientific contributions helping to define complex environments
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whose work centered on the understanding of star formation.
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lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview
Orlando, Florida
Los Angeles
California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Michigan
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Thesis
Structure and evolution of model helium stars
Doctoral advisor
John Beverley Oke
astrophysicist
planetary scientist
Orlando, Florida
Dorset, Vermont
Glee Club
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Michigan
California Institute of Technology
Camp Becket
RAND Corporation
helium stars
John Beverley Oke
star formation
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
space probes

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