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    Van Vleck is a lunar impact crater that is located near the northeastern rim of the walled plain Gilbert, to the west of the Mare Smythii. The similar...
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  • Van Vleck, Texas Van Vleck Observatory, Connecticut (IAU code 298) Van Vleck (crater) Van Vleck House and Barn Van Vleck House and Gardens Van Vleck Independent...
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    twice. The Van Vleck Observatory (at Wesleyan University) and the crater Van Vleck on the Moon are named after him. John Monroe Van Vleck was born on...
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    northeast rim is adjacent to the crater Schubert. To the west is Jenkins, and to the southwest is the Weierstrass–Van Vleck crater pair. Back is nearly circular...
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    flows toward the south as an extended depression. The crater pair of Weierstrass and Van Vleck have formed an indented rim along the northeast face, while...
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    crater Back, and to the south is the crater pair of Van Vleck and Weierstrass. This is a circular crater with a somewhat worn rim. The small crater Schubert...
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  • Thumbnail for Weierstrass (crater)
    crater that is attached to the northern rim of the walled plain Gilbert, in the eastern part of the Moon. It also lies very near the crater Van Vleck...
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    lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon, giving it a foreshortened appearance when viewed from the Earth. The crater overlies the...
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    Just to the northeast of this crater, attached to the outer rim of Gilbert, is the crater pair of Weierstrass and Van Vleck. The rim of Geissler is nearly...
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  • the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages...
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  • Award; Willard Gibbs Award John Monroe Van Vleck (1850) – astronomer, mathematician; namesake of Van Vleck crater on the Moon Jesse Vincent (1998) – software...
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    1906, pp. 261–262. Dirichlet 1855, pp. 193–217. James 2002, pp. 69–74. Van Vleck 1916, pp. 1–13. Jacobi 1841, pp. 285–318. Aldrich, John (June 23, 2017)...
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    Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California. 169 kilograms (373 lb), Van Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. 162 kilograms...
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    December 4, 1944) was an American astronomer. He was the director of Van Vleck Observatory. He was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts to Frederick and...
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    John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/ von NOY-mən; Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian...
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  • From 1960–71, after serving as an assistant, he became director of the Van Vleck Observatory; the second to hold that position. During his career he computed...
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  • Astronomical Society (1907) Bruce Medal (1920) James Craig Watson Medal (1936) The crater Brown on the Moon Asteroid 1643 Brown Brown lunation number Brown, E.W....
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  • District 13 Boling Danbury East Bernard El Maton Tidehaven Van Vleck Wallis Brazos District 14 Blanco Karnes City Natalia Nixon Smiley Poth Stockdale...
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  • Thumbnail for J. Robert Oppenheimer
    collection included works by Pablo Picasso, Édouard Vuillard, and Vincent van Gogh. Oppenheimer was initially educated at Alcuin Preparatory School. In...
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    (1881) Newcomb (1902) p. 116 Fisher (1909). M. G. J. Minnaert: De natuurkunde van 't vrije veld, Deel 2: Geluid, warmte, elektriciteit. § 248: Het ionosfeerlicht...
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    California in July 1942 with theoretical physicists Hans Bethe, John Van Vleck, Edward Teller, Emil Konopinski, Robert Serber, Stan Frankel, and Eldred...
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  • Leo Stearns (1892–1972), American astronomer at Wesleyan University and Van Vleck Observatory who measured a large number of stellar parallaxes. The official...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward Condon
    unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have prosaic explanations. The lunar crater Condon is named for him. Edward Uhler Condon was born on March 2, 1902,...
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    in 1916 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1923. A crater on the Moon is named after him.[citation needed] He returned to military...
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    York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. OCLC 1871779. Compton, Arthur; with Allison, S. K. (1935). X-Rays in Theory and Experiment. New York: D. Van Nostrand...
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  • engineers. He was the eponym of the Lyman series of spectral lines. The crater Lyman on the far side of the Moon is named after him. He was elected to...
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  • Thumbnail for Luis Walter Alvarez
    years later, after Alvarez's death, evidence was found of a large impact crater off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, providing support for...
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    (1909) Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1909) Hill crater on the Moon Asteroid 1642 Hill Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences...
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    his contributions to the "welfare of mankind through physics" The lunar crater Compton is named after Compton and his brother Arthur, who was also an influential...
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    California in Berkeley, in July with theoretical physicists Hans Bethe, John Van Vleck, Edward Teller, Emil Konopinski, Robert Serber, Stan Frankel, and Eldred...
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