Editing Lyman Spitzer (section)

==Early life and education==
Spitzer was born to a [[Presbyterian]] family in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Lyman Spitzer Sr. and Blanche Carey (née Brumback). Through his paternal grandmother, he was related to inventor [[Eli Whitney]].<ref>[http://www.wargs.com/political/richardson.html Ancestry of Gov. Bill Richardson]</ref> Spitzer graduated from [[Scott High School (Toledo, Ohio)|Scott High School]].  He then attended [[Phillips Academy]] from 1929 to 1931 and went on to [[Yale College]], where he graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] in 1935 and was a member of [[Skull and Bones]].  During a year of study at [[St John's College, Cambridge]], he was influenced by [[Arthur Eddington]] and the young [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]].  Returning to the U.S., Spitzer received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in physics from [[Princeton University]] in 1938 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "The spectra of late [[supergiant star]]s", under the direction of [[Henry Norris Russell]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Current Biography Yearbook | publisher=H.W. Wilson | date=1960 | pages=395–96}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Professor of Astronomy Lyman Spitzer Jr. Dies|newspaper=Communications and Publications, Stanhope Hall, Princeton U.|date=April 1, 1997|url=https://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/97/q2/0401sptz.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Spitzer|first=Lyman|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/2699308|title=The spectra of late supergiant stars|date=1938|language=en}}</ref>