Thomas Michael Donahue Explained

Thomas Michael Donahue
Birth Date:	23 January 1921
Birth Place:	Healdton, Oklahoma
Death Place:	Ann Arbor, Michigan
Children:	Brian Donahue Kevin Donahue Neil Donahue

Thomas Michael Donahue (May 23, 1921 – October 16, 2004) was an American physicist, astronomer, and space and planetary scientist.

Donahue graduated in 1942 from Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri and received in 1947 his PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins University, with an interruption of his graduate studies by WW II and service in the Army Signal Corps.

According to the fall 2004 newsletter of the University of Michigan's department of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences, Donahue said:

Upon his death, he was survived by his wife, three sons, and six grandchildren.

Awards and honors

• 1959 — elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 1981 — honorary doctorate from Rockhurst College
• 1981 — Arctowski Medal from the National Academy of Sciences
• 1981 — John Adam Fleming Medal from the American Geophysical Union
• 1983 — elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• 1986 — elected to the International Academy of Astronautics
• 1986 — Henry Russel Lectureship at the University of Michigan
• 1994 — U. of Michigan's Attwood Award for excellence in research

External links

• Thomas M. Donahue | Faculty History Project | University of Michigan
• BHL: Thomas M. Donahue papers 1939–2002, U. of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library