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    Edward Charles Pickering (July 19, 1846 – February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering...
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  • Edward Pickering may refer to: Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), American astronomer Edward Pickering (journalist) (1912–2003), British newspaper...
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    Jamaica. William Pickering was born on February 15, 1858, in Boston, Massachusetts. His older brother was Edward Charles Pickering, director of the Harvard...
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    the Moon. It was named after American astronomers Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering. It lies more than 25 km northeast of the crater...
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    Observatory. In 1902, she was hired by the director of the observatory, Edward Charles Pickering, to measure and catalog the brightness of stars as they appeared...
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    Harvard College Observatory from 1919 to 1921 after the death of Edward Charles Pickering and prior to the appointment of Harlow Shapley. He worked as a...
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    maid in the home of Professor Edward Charles Pickering, the director of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Pickering's wife Elizabeth recommended Williamina...
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The team was directed by Edward Charles Pickering (1877 to 1919) and, following his death in 1919, by Annie Jump...
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  • were G. Stanley Hall, George Stuart Fullerton, Edward Charles Pickering, Henry Pickering Bowditch and Charles Sedgwick Minot. Other founding members were...
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  • The Pickering series (also known as the Pickering–Fowler series) consists of three lines of singly ionised helium found, usually in absorption, in the...
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    from 1919 to 1921 and died in Ealing, London in 1940. In 1896, Edward Charles Pickering published observations of previously unknown lines in the spectra...
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    (after the New General Catalogue was published), but credit went to Edward Charles Pickering, the director of her observatory, as was the custom of the day...
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    His heirs challenged the will, but it was found valid. In 1887, Edward Charles Pickering convinced the trustees of Boyden's will to award the Boyden Fund...
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    constellation Sagittarius. NGC 6644 was discovered by American astronomer Edward Charles Pickering in 1880. With an apparent visual magnitude of 10.7, a telescope...
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    Washington appointed Pickering to the position of Postmaster General in 1791. After briefly serving as Secretary of War, Pickering became the Secretary...
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    the group was written by Hale, George Comstock, Edward Morley, Simon Newcomb and Edward Charles Pickering. These men, plus four others, were the first Executive...
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    [clarification needed] half the amount paid to men at that time. In 1887, Edward Charles Pickering had found the first spectroscopic binary or double star, ζ1 Ursae...
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  • baseball coach Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer Ernest Pickering (1928–2000), American fundamentalist leader Ernest Harold Pickering (1881-1957)...
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    peculiar property of being able to warp light waves around itself". Edward Charles Pickering (1905-04-28). "A Tenth Satellite of Saturn". Harvard College Observatory...
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    the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to honor American astronomer Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919). The immediate area has other geographical features...
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  • Observatory under the supervision of Edward Charles Pickering, and contained about 4,000 stars. Following its release, Pickering promoted a broader stellar survey...
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    Herschel, the first President of the RAS. Silver medalists: Jean-Louis Pons, Charles Rümker Silver medalists: Mark Beaufoy, William Samuel Stratford The first...
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    responsible for only part of the data. In the late nineteenth century Edward Charles Pickering organized the "Harvard Computers". The first woman to approach...
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    the efforts of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Edward Charles Pickering and Samuel Hubbard Scudder, who invited fellow Boston academics...
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    space. He visited Harvard and MIT, and met with scientists such as Edward Charles Pickering. One collaborator, Professor Dolbear, exclaimed "(Munsell) may...
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    was awarded the Copley Medal. In 1881, the Harvard astronomer Edward Charles Pickering presented evidence that Algol was actually an eclipsing binary...
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    reconsideration of the Pickering–Fowler series as central evidence in support of his model of the atom. This series is named for Edward Charles Pickering, who in 1896...
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    William Herschel on 31 January 1783. In 1910, Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering and Williamina Fleming discovered that, despite being a dim star...
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  • (1828–1906) DMP · 783 784 Pickeringia 1914 UM Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919) and his brother William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), both American astronomers...
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    measure and catalog the brightness of stars. Observatory Director Edward Charles Pickering assigned Leavitt to the study of variable stars of the Small and...
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