James Eliott Thorne

Jim was born in Glendive, MT on January 20, 1988 in Glendive, Montana to Richard and Jan Thorne. He had a strong love of sports participating in baseball, soccer, wrestling, football, and track. After graduating from Whitehall High school in 2006 he left for Glauchau, Germany. He was a foreign exchange student living with Ralf and Renate Schmidt for one year. Returning home from Germany he went to The University of Wyoming majoring in physical chemistry. He was able to get a grant after his sophomore year for a summer to work with his advisor Bruce Parkinson on solar energy, which became his p...