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    George Cary Comstock (February 12, 1855 – May 11, 1934) was an American astronomer and educator. George Comstock was born in Madison, Wisconsin on February...
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    American Astronomical Society (category Astronomy societies)
    in 1899 through the efforts of George Ellery Hale. The constitution of the group was written by Hale, George Comstock, Edward Morley, Simon Newcomb and...
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    Charles Augustus Young; George C. Comstock; Robert S. Ball, Camille Flammarion; Harold Jacoby. Five weeks' study of astronomy. 1901 OCLC 1045547147 v...
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  • world. Led by progressive educators and naturalists such as Anna Botsford Comstock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Louis Agassiz, William Gould Vinal, and Wilbur S...
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  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied astronomy at the Washburn Observatory under George C. Comstock. Stebbins published his first paper, concerning...
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    Atmospheric refraction (category Observational astronomy)
    Clemence, Gerald M. (1966), Spherical Astronomy, New York and London: Academic Press, pp. 82–83 Comstock, George C. (1890), "A Simple Approximate Formula...
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    John Lee Comstock (September 25, 1787, East Lyme, Connecticut – November 21, 1858, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American surgeon and educator, who served...
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    trickery, and thieves, all of which are central themes in the plot. Astronomy is also a significant (although secondary) theme in the cycle; a transit...
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    the Moon and Mars are named in his honor. After a 5-year hiatus from astronomy, Douglass left Flagstaff, Arizona in 1906 and accepted a position as Assistant...
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    Society 1988, Tom W. Bonner Prize of the American Physical Society 1978, Comstock Prize in Physics of the National Academy of Sciences Davis, Raymond Jr...
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    He was succeeded by Directors Edward S. Holden (1883-1886) then George C. Comstock (1886-1922). Joel Stebbins became the Director in 1922, and the observatory...
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  • Medal presented by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Comstock Prize in Physics awarded by the National Academy of Sciences (1948) Order...
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    James Craig Watson Medal (category Astronomy prizes)
    National Academy of Sciences for contributions to astronomy. Source:National Academy of Sciences List of astronomy awards List of awards named after people "James...
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    among his students were Otto Julius Klotz, Robert Simpson Woodward, George Cary Comstock, Marcus Baker, and John Martin Schaeberle. The full list of directors...
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  • Stimson Greene and Samuel Stuart Greene) and one daughter (Alice Greene Comstock). In 1840, Greene became the first ever superintendent of schools in Springfield...
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    US UFO sightings in the United States – List of alleged UFO sightings Comstock, Lori (December 17, 2024). "Mapped: All the locations of mass drone sightings...
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    of Sciences (1956) Anna Botsford Comstock (1885, natural history) – illustrator and naturalist John Henry Comstock (B.S. 1874; professor) – pioneer in...
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    (1933) from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Comstock Prize (1933) of the National Academy of Sciences. Bridgman was a member...
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    Athletic Championships. Volos hosted the 7th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics from 27 July to 5 August 2013. Built at the innermost...
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    was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bowdoin College. Comstock, George C. (December 1913). Biographical Memoir of John Huntington Crane Coffin...
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    awarded the National Medal of Science in 1978. In 1973, he was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was...
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  • Cog — Cogshall (double stars) Col — Collins (double stars) Com — G. C. Comstock (double stars) Cop — Copeland (double stars) Coro/Coo — Cordoba Observatory...
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    Republican Job Department, 1886, p. 121. Moore, Danielle. "Guide to the George McClellan Derby Letters, 1874–1924 and undated". Duke University libraries...
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  • medical doctor, first director of the Rockefeller University Hospital George Comstock, helped organize the American Astronomical Society in 1897, serving...
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    26 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları (2011) Comstock-Skipp, Jaimee (2023). "Turk amongst Tajiks: The Turkic Shāhnāma Translation...
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    Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1958 — awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Science. 1959 — awarded the...
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    Alexander Ramsey House Birch Coulee Battlefield Charles A. Lindbergh House Comstock House Folsom House Forest History Center Forestville Fort Renville Fort...
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    of the "Nausicaa" episode led to a prosecution for obscenity under the Comstock Act of 1873, which made it illegal to circulate materials deemed obscene...
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  • pomology; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1943) Anna Botsford Comstock — nature studies, appointed first woman assistant professor at Cornell...
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  • Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, a consortium of institutions pursuing research in astronomy. The association operates observatories...
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