Roger Wolcott Richardson 1930 – 1993
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551 Roger Wolcott Richardson was born on 30␣ May 1930 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was the eldest of the four sons of Roger Wolcott Richardson jr and Cora Johnson. His father was completing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the time of Richardson’s birth and subsequently devoted virtually his whole working life to a career as an executive with Standard Oil (later the Exxon Corporation). His younger brother Hamilton was a well known U.S. Davis Cup tennis player. He had two other brothers, one of whom died of thyroid cancer at an early age. Richardson was educated at Baton Rouge High School where he was a champion athlete and tennis player and distinguished himself in mathematics and physics. He graduated with the degree of B.Sc., majoring in physics, from Louisiana State University in 1951 and was then conscripted into the U.S. Air Force. Richardson’s work during this period apparently involved some mathematics and it later appeared to amuse him that it was secret, so that he could not tell his friends about it. He was posted to Cambridge Mass., and lived near the Harvard campus for two years. His desire to pursue an intellectual career was stimulated by the circle in which he moved during this period.
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