Edward Lawry Norton was born in Rockland, Maine on July 28, 1898. He served as a radio operator in the U.S Navy between 1917 and 1919. He attended the University of Maine for one year before and for one year after his wartime service, then transferred t www-ece.rice.edu/~dhj/norton/
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