Thomas Wm. Hamilton

Thomas Wm. Hamilton began in the astronomical field in 1963 working on the Apollo Project, where he determined radar accuracy requirements, and fuel needs in circumlunar orbit and rendezvous.

As Apollo wound down Hamilton began working for a planetarium manufacturer writing canned shows, and from 1970 ran a college planetarium, later working in a museum's planetarium, winding up running his own portable model.

In this field Hamilton trained students who worked for NASA and in planetariums from Seattle to Florida. He wrote several hundred planetarium shows of his own, and had a federal grant which allowed him to write shows in twelve foreign languages and provide them to 260 planetariums throughout the USA, plus a couple foreign ones.

Hamilton's writing began with two (now obsolete) books in the computer field in 1966, many articles in professional planetarium publications, the time travel adventure novel Time For Patriots (2008), astronomical works Useful Star Names (2011), and Our Neighbor Stars (2012), and an anthology of science fiction and fantasy The Mountain of Long Eyes (2012).

Politically Hamilton joined the newly formed Independence Party, serving as a County Chair, member of the State Committee, and was twice an elector in Presidential elections. He ran for State Assembly, cross endorsed by the Green Party, amd for State Senate.

Hamilton was a child actor, playing Barnaby, the little boy with a discombobulated fairy godfather on stage; the boy in Huckleberry Finn killed in a feud on radio, the original version of Miracle on 34th Street; Didi in a radio production of Waiting for Godot, a regular on the television children's show Mr. I-Magination, and other roles.