{{infobox person , name = William A. Norton , image = William A Norton portrait.jpg , alt = , caption = Portrait of Norton at Yale College , birth_name = William Augustus Norton , birth_date = , birth_place = East Bloomfield, New York , death_date = {{Death date and age, 1883, 09, 21, 1810, 10, 25 , death_place = New Haven, Connecticut , nationality = , alma_mater = West Point Military Academy , employer = University of the City of New York
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William Augustus Norton (October 25, 1810 – September 21, 1883) was a civil engineer and educator. He was the president of Delaware College and later a founding faculty member of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University Norton was born in East Bloomfield, New York.{{cite book , last=Trowbridge , first=W. P. , author-link=William P. Trowbridge , title=Memoir of William A. Norton, 1810–1883 , publisher=National Academy of Sciences , location=Washington, D.C. , date=1886 , volume=2 , pages=189–199 , url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/norton-william.pdf , access-date=16 November 2015 Norton graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1831 and began his academic career there as assistant professor of natural and experimental philosophy. During this time, he also participated in the Black Hawk War. In 1833, he became professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at the University of the City of New York. In 1839, he moved to Delaware College as professor and then in 1850, became president. He had planned to turn the school into a scientific institution but was discouraged and left in 1850, to become professor of natural philosophy and civil engineering at

. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1844.{{Cite web, title=APS Member History, url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1844&year-max=1844&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced, access-date=2021-04-12, website=search.amphilsoc.org In 1852, Norton moved to Yale College with his students to become the school's first professor of engineering, and became one of the founding faculty of the Sheffield Scientific School when it was founded in 1854.{{cite book , last=Dwight , first=Timothy , author-link=Timothy Dwight V , title=Memories of Yale Life and Men, 1854–1899 , publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company , location=New York , year=1903 , url=https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofyaleli00dwig/memoriesofyaleli00dwig#page/357/mode/1up , pages=357–360 In 1873, he became a member of the

. He remained at Yale until his death in 1883. While at the University of the City of New York, Norton completed a college astronomy textbook known as ''An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy'' (Wiley & Putnam, 1839), which was re-issued in four editions. He was also the author of the ''First Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy'' (1858).

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*{{cite book , last=Norton , first=William A. , title=Elementary Treatise on Astronomy , publisher=Wiley & Putnam , year=1839 , location=New York , url=https://archive.org/details/elementarytrea00nort *{{cite book , last=Norton , first=William A. , title=First Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy , year=1859 , publisher=A.S. Barnes & Burr , location=New York , url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011568399

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*{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , title=Terrestrial Magnetism , journal=American Journal of Science , series=2nd , volume=IV , year=1847 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Periodical Variations of the Declination and Directive Force of the Magnetic Needle, journal=American Journal of Science , year=1855 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Ericsson's Caloric Engine , journal=American Journal of Science , year=1853 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Donati's Comet. Two Memoirs , journal=American Journal of Science , year=1859 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Donati's Comet. Two Memoirs , journal=American Journal of Science , year=1871 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Molecular Physics. Two Memoirs , journal=American Journal of Science , year=1864, volume=s2-38, doi=10.2475/ajs.s2-38.113.207 , s2cid=219244454 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Molecular Physics. Two Memoirs , journal=American Journal of Science , year=1872 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Principles of Molecular and Cosmical Physics, journal=American Journal of Science , volume=49 , issue=145 , pages=24–36 , year=1870, doi=10.2475/ajs.s2-49.145.24 , bibcode=1870AmJS...49...24N , s2cid=124417692 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=The Corona Seen in Total Eclipses of the Sun , journal=American Journal of Science , year= 1870, doi=10.2475/ajs.s2-50.149.250 , s2cid=130024854 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Physical Constitution of the Sun, journal=American Journal of Science , year=1871, volume=s3-1 , doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-1.6.395 , s2cid=130009797 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Dynamical Theories of Heat, journal=American Journal of Science , volume=5 , issue=27 , pages=186–197 , year=1873, doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-5.27.186 , bibcode=1873AmJS....5..186N , s2cid=130998273 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Laws of the deflection of beams exposed to a transverse strain. Tested by experiment , journal=Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , year=1870 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Physical theory of the principle of the lever , journal=Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , year=1870 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Results of experiments on the set of bars of wood, iron, and steel, after transverse stress , journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , volume=11 , issue=64 , pages=284–290 , year=1874, bibcode=1876AmJS...11..284N , doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-11.64.284 , s2cid=130706976 , url=https://zenodo.org/record/1586256 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=A succinct statement of the conclusions of the two papers. , journal=American Journal of Science , date=April 1870 *{{cite journal , last=Norton , first=William A. , author-mask=——, title=Kesult of experiments on contact resistance , journal=American Journal of Science , volume=11 , issue=66 , pages=442–446 , year=1876, doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-11.66.442 , bibcode=1876AmJS...11..442N , s2cid=131290356 {{refend

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