Astronaut Biography: Jerome Apt (original) (raw)

Biographies of U.S. Astronauts

Graduated from Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1967; Bachelor of arts in physics from Harvard College, 1971;Ph.D. in physics fromMIT, 1976; from 1980 - 1982 he joined the Earth and Space Sciences Division ofNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; unsuccessful application forNASA astronaut groups 9 and10; he leftNASA in late May 1997 to become director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; hobbies: scuba diving, camping, photography, model rocketry and amateur radio.