"Catch a Falling Star," the life story of Donald Clayton, follows
the struggle of one human being to find love and to create
scientific understanding of the origin of the atoms of chemical
elements. Born on an Iowa farm, son of an aviation pioneer, he
became the first among his family to attend college, then graduate
school in physics at Caltech. His three marriages reveal his battle
with sexual anxiety and a sense of loss. At the same time he
struggled to discover new knowledge about the creation of the atoms
of our bodies and our earth. His close friendship with two great
pioneers of the origin of matter enlivened his scientific life in
the United States and Europe. His discoveries created two new
fields of astronomy whose beginnings are featured in the book.
Clayton's autobiography chronicles the exciting life that he
lived on the frontier of the scientific discovery of the origin of
the chemical elements within stars. His adventures centered on
academic institutions: California Institute of Technology, Rice
University, University of Cambridge, Max Planck Institute in
Heidelberg, and Clemson University. "Catch a Falling Star" tells
how science and his love of it endowed his life with meaning.
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