David Compton (’49 M.S.), Athens, Georgia. He taught chemistry at West Texas A&M University, Colorado School of Mines and Prescott College in Arizona, and he also worked as a technical writer and editor. He wrote NASA's official history of Skylab in 1974 and one of the Apollo histories at Johnson Space Center's History Office. He wrote the chapter on NASA and space sciences in 100 Years of Science and Technology in Texas in 1986, published by Sigma Xi for its centenary and Texas' sesquicentennial. He was a writer/editor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory until he retired in 1993. He attended North Texas after receiving his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and serving as a Navy Aviation Radioman 3rd Class during World War II. He met the late Jane Walker (’50) at North Texas, and they married in 1950. He then earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin in 1956. He received an M.Sc. in the history of technology from Imperial College in London in 1972.
David Compton (’49 M.S.), Athens, Georgia. He taught chemistry at West Texas A&M University, Colorado School of Mines and Prescott College in Arizona, and he also worked as a technical writer and editor. He wrote NASA's official history of Skylab in 1974 and one of the Apollo histories at Johnson Space Center's History Office. He wrote the chapter on NASA and space sciences in 100 Years of Science and Technology in Texas in 1986, published by Sigma Xi for its centenary and Texas' sesquicentennial. He was a writer/editor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory until he retired in 1993. He attended North Texas after receiving his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and serving as a Navy Aviation Radioman 3rd Class during World War II. He met the late Jane Walker (’50) at North Texas, and they married in 1950. He then earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin in 1956. He received an M.Sc. in the history of technology from Imperial College in London in 1972.
