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 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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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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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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology given by Edward Charles Pickering. Through attending Pickering's classes, Whiting observed the techniques of teaching...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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missed by early surveyors of the skies and only spotted in 1882 by Edward Charles Pickering. "NGC 6741". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg...
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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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baseball coach Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer Ernest Pickering (1928–2000), American fundamentalist leader Ernest Harold Pickering (1881-1957)...
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gave the height of No. 18 to be 4,387.25 and of No. 19 4,061.46 — Edward Charles Pickering, Accurate Mountain Heights "Landmark building gets facelift" -...
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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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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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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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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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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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to everyone in the northern hemisphere. Originally proposed by Edward Charles Pickering, the system was used between 1900 and 1950. Today it has been replaced...
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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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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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media related to Charles Pickering Bowditch. Works by Charles P. Bowditch at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Charles Pickering Bowditch at the Internet...
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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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Observatory in 1875 and was hired to work for 25 cents an hour. By 1880, Edward Charles Pickering had hired several women to work for him at Harvard because he knew...
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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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