Thornton completed a through-hike of the Appalachian Trail
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Kathryn C. Thornton
Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity. She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, as well as a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering before her retirement in 2019. She is now Professor Eme…
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science · American scientist and astronaut (born 1952) · astronaut · physicist · university teacher · also Kathryn C. Thornton, Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton, Kathryn Ryan Cordell, Kathryn R. Cordell, Kathryn R Cordell, K. R. Cordell
Born 17 August 1952 · Q289337
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2019· 1 entry
2013· 1 entry
“Katherine Thornton – Sometimes You Are Lucky Enough In Life…”
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2010· 1 entry
And serving in various capacities, including as Chairwoman from 2020 to 2022
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1996· 1 entry
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Published “PROCHECK: a program to check the stereochemical quality of protein structures” in Journal of Applied Crystallography — cited 21,583 times.
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1989· 1 entry
STS-49 in 1992, STS-61 in 1993, and STS-73 in 1995
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1980· 1 entry
Thornton became a physicist at the United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center in Charlottesville, Virginia
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1979· 2 entries
Earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics at the University of Virginia
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Was awarded a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her research at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany
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1977· 1 entry
Received an Master of Science degree in physics
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-08-17.
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