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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Harvard Computers (redirect from Pickering's Harem)
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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Alfred Fowler (section Pickering–Fowler series)
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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Veil Nebula (redirect from Pickering's Triangle)
(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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Themis (hypothetical moon) (redirect from Pickering's Moon)
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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