Dayton E. Carritt

Project Staff, Chemist Los Alamos, NM

Scientist

Dayton Ernest Carritt was born on March 12, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts.

He worked as a chemist at the Los Alamos Lab from 1943 to 1946.

Dayton E. Carritt’s Timeline

1937 Earned B.S. Degree from University of Rhode Island.

1948 Earned Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Harvard.

19371938 Served as a Chemical Technician at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

19411942 Served as a Research Chemist for the Bureau of Ships.

19421943 Taught Chemistry at URI.

19471951 Taught Chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

19511960 Served as an Associate Professor of Oceanography at Johns Hopkins University.

1971 Became a Professor at the University of Massachusetts.

1993 Mar 18th Passed away.

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