When I got to quantitative analysis and beyond, I began to figure out the micrograms, and that this was more than I really wanted to know about it-as far as spending my life doing it,” Doherty said in a recent interview.Īfter abruptly switching majors, he found that the only thing that he could graduate with was a degree in Philosophy. I enjoyed chemistry until quantitative analysis-it was always interesting to see what the compound was composed of. “I had won a science award in high school. His father’s work inspired Doherty, who decided to attend Trinity College as a chemical engineering major. Throughout the war years, Doherty’s father was an engineer for Pratt & Whitney and was part of the team that designed the country’s first jet engines. He took to the magazine quickly and then began to branch out, eventually reading other magazines like Galaxy Science Fiction. His grandfather and mother read to him as a child, and when he was old enough to read on his own, they got him a subscription to Astounding Science Fiction. From an early age, he was introduced to reading. Tom Doherty is its founding father.ĭoherty was born on April 23, 1935. Since its inception, Tor Books has become one of the biggest names in science-fiction publishing.
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