Horace Welcome Babcock (September 13, 1912 – August 29, 2003) was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock. Babcock invented and built...
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Harold Delos Babcock (January 24, 1882 – April 8, 1968) was an American astronomer and the father of Horace W. Babcock. He was of English and German ancestry...
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magnetic and sunspot patterns observed on the Sun. It is named after Horace W. Babcock. The modern understanding of sunspots starts with George Ellery Hale...
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American inventor Harold D. Babcock (1882–1968), American astronomer Havilah Babcock (1837–1905), American businessman Horace W. Babcock (1912–2003), American...
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anomalies came from measurements of galaxy rotation curves. In 1939, Horace W. Babcock reported the rotation curve for the Andromeda nebula (known now as...
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magnetic dipole field. Horace W. Babcock later proposed a qualitative model for the dynamics of the solar outer layers. The Babcock Model explains that magnetic...
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the Hubble Space Telescope. Adaptive optics was first envisioned by Horace W. Babcock in 1953, and was also considered in science fiction, as in Poul Anderson's...
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doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935131. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 148571864. Babcock, Horace W.; Babcock, Harold D. (March 1955). "The Sun's Magnetic Field, 1952–1954"...
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Dirk Brouwer 1967 – Ludwig Biermann 1968 – Willem J. Luyten 1969 – Horace W. Babcock 1970 – Fred Hoyle 1971 – Jesse Greenstein 1972 – Iosif S. Shklovskii...
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oscillations by observing the Doppler shifts of solar dark lines 1961 — Horace W. Babcock proposes the magnetic coiling sunspot theory 1970 — Roger Ulrich,...
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military leader Horace Vernet (1789–1863), French painter Horace Viner (1877–1935), Welsh professional footballer Horace W. Babcock (1912–2003), American...
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this star was a spectroscopic binary. In 1958, American astronomer Horace W. Babcock confirmed the binary nature of the star. It has an orbital period...
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suggesting cosmic rays originated from supernovae. A 1948 proposal by Horace W. Babcock suggested that magnetic variable stars could be a source of cosmic...
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or with a liquid crystal array filter. AO was first envisioned by Horace W. Babcock in 1953, but did not come into common usage in astronomical telescopes...
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Transequatorial loop (section Babcock Model)
dynamo. The idea of transequatorial loops was first developed by Horace W. Babcock in his 1961 model for the 11 year sunspot cycle. It explains that...
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List of astronomers (section W)
1114–1185) Walter Baade (Germany, 1893–1960) Harold D. Babcock (United States, 1882–1968) Horace W. Babcock (United States, 1912–2003) Oskar Backlund (Sweden...
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Hoyle Walter Munk 1969 Martin Schwarzschild Albert Thomas Price 1970 Horace W. Babcock 1971 Richard van der Riet Woolley Frank Press 1972 Fritz Zwicky H...
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B0531+21. Named after Walter Baade. Babcock's Magnetic Star is HD 215441 in Lacerta. Named after Horace W. Babcock. Baxendell's possible Nova (Nova Bootis...
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otherwise noted. 1953 Georges Lemaître 1955 Hendrik C. van de Hulst 1958 Horace W. Babcock 1959 James Stanley Hey 1960 Robert d'Escourt Atkinson 1961 Hans Albrecht...
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Angel, MS 1966; Kavli Prize laureate; awarded MacArthur Fellowship Horace W. Babcock, BS 1934 James M. Bardeen, PhD 1965 Nick Barua, COO of Swift Xi Eric...
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Wild 1982 John W. Evans 1984 Leo Goldberg 1986 Peter A. Sturrock 1988 Cornelis de Jager 1990 Richard N. Tousey 1992 Horace W. Babcock 1994 Douglas O....
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George H. W. Bush, William Westmoreland, Arthur Miller). Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, 63, Iraqi cleric and politician, bombing. Horace W. Babcock, 90, American...
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William Alexander Gambling 1992 – William Newsome and Semir Zeki 1993 – Horace W. Babcock 1993 – Arthur Ashkin 1995 – William Bradshaw Amos 1995 – Marvin Minsky...
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3PEF. Adaptive optics was first theorized by American astronomer Horace W. Babcock in 1953, who surmised that it could be used to improve the quality...
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George O. (1 August 1969). "Award of the Bruce Gold Medal to Dr. Horace W. Babcock". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 81 (480):...
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Orville Elias Babcock (December 25, 1835 – June 2, 1884) was an American engineer and general in the Union Army during the Civil War. An aide to General...
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April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive - Horace Welcome Babcock". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
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Klondike Gold Rush MPC · 3166 3167 Babcock 1955 RS Horace W. Babcock (1912–2003) and his father Harold D. Babcock (1882–1968), American astronomers MPC ·...
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Academies. Retrieved 2011-05-28. Wilson, H.W. (1987). Nobel prize winners: an H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary. H.W. Wilson. p. 1140. ISBN 978-0-8242-0756-4...
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George Gallup (redirect from George Horace Gallup)
Eunice Viola Babcock – The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa -The University of Iowa". uipress.lib.uiowa.edu. Wolfgang Donsbach and Michael W. Traugott (2007)...
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