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The Education of an Astronomical Maverick: T. J. J. See and the University of Missouri

At the dawn ofthe twentieth century, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See (1866-1962, see Figure I) was the most controversial astronomer in the United States. A superficial view of his career would suggest a brilliant and hardworking individual who should have been able to make important and lasting contributions to science, but the reality is that, if remembered at all, he is regarded as "a colorful eccentric ... lost within the personal legend he himself created". 1 Suffice to say that he failed in successive employment and research opportunities at the new University of Chicago (1892-96), at the Lowell Observatory (1896-98), and ultimately at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. (1899-1902),2 See was dismissed from the first