Robert Shirley Richardson (April 22, 1902 – November 12, 1981)[1] was an Americanastronomer, born inKokomo, Indiana. He also publishedscience fiction using thepseudonymPhilip Latham.
Philip Latham can support the suppositions that are the basis of his science fiction novels with accepted scientific theories. For he's an author who's in the business of "watching the stars." An astronomer at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories since 1931, he started writing for magazines in the early forties. His work won such wide respect that he now has a college textbook on astronomy to his credit. Movie producers as well as publishers find Mr. Latham's experience too good to pass up. He has given technical assistance to a number of studios on pictures such asDestination Moon, and he has written an article describing the work on the science fiction thrillerWhen Worlds Collide.
- — From the back flap of the dust jacket onFive Against Venus.
In his professional role he wrote about 10 books on astronomy. As Latham he wrote scripts for the early television seriesCaptain Video as well as about 20 science-fiction stories.[2] In one of these,N Day, an astronomer named Philip Latham is freed from his reclusive life by the knowledge that the sun is about to gonova.
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