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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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 (redirect from Jon van Newman)
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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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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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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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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