Eleanor M. Clinton; Physicist, Poet, Teacher
Eleanor Marcella Clinton, physicist, poet and mathematics teacher, has died at a retirement home in Los Angeles. She died March 5 at the age of 101
A native of Portland, Ore., and a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she taught for many years. But during World War II, she became a mass-measurement specialist for the Bureau of Standards in Washington and continued a career as a consulting physicist until she was 90.
She remained an active poet all her life and in 1954 published a volume of science-oriented poetry titled “Fire and the Wheel.”
Memorial services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Francis Chapel of First Baptist Church at 760 S. Westmoreland Ave., where she was an active member.
Her surviving nephews and nieces have asked that any memorial contributions be make to that church for inner-city charities.
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