Chet raymo biography for kids



Biography for 2nd graders.

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For nearly 50 years, Chet Raymo walked the same one-mile path between his home in suburban Boston and his office at Stonehill College, where he taught as a professor of physics and astronomy.

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  • The path crosses through a prototypically New England landscape of woods and meadows, across a rushing brook and past historic homes built by immigrants who labored in the local shovel works.

    Raymo ’58, ’64Ph.D. catalogued nearly every inch of that walk for The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe, a book he wrote in 2003 that brims with observations large and small — about the lives of the immigrants who built those houses, the granite rocks left behind by glacial drift, the migration patterns of monarch butterflies.

    Reading it is like walking with a witty companion equipped with a microscope mounted on a telescope, who at any moment might zoom in on the geology of pebbles, or zoom out to contemplate the courses of stars.

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