PAUL C. MARTIN

I met Paul during out high school days, when we were members of the Junior Astronomy Club (JAC) that met and had an office in the American Museum of Natural History. We were in a class on calculus Saturday mornings in Rm 129 on the main floor of the museum. The class was toughed by JAC advisor James B. Rothschild, who presented a relatively rigorous account culminating in the equations of celestial mechanics.

We came to Washington DC in 1948 during the Westinghouse Science Talent...

I'm so sorry to hear that Paul has died; my condolences to his all his family. I recall fondly our times together at the Junior Astronomy Club in New York and at Harvard College. Richard LeSchack was in our group; his note describes out gathering around a blackboard mulling over difficult math problems. As he says, this was at the JAC office in the basement of the Museum of Natural History. I knew Paul's younger brother Bob Martin when he was at NIH and later attended with my wife a play he...

Paul Martin and I were friends during our high school and college years (1944-1951), when we were both active in the Junior Astronomy Club at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and then classmates at Harvard College. The JAC had an office in the basement of the Museum, where we would gather weekends around a blackboard to work on math problems. Our group included several notable mathematicians-to-be, including Donald J. Newman (renowned mathematician), Ariel Charles...