Adams, Walter Sydney (1876-1956)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3397. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Antioch, Syria, to American missionary parents, he worked under GEORGE HALE at Yerkes Observatory at the University of Chicago, accompanying Hale to California to set up the Mount Wilson Observatory, and becoming its director on Hale's retirement. He helped design the 200 in telescope for Mount Palomar Observatory. His method of spectroscopic parallaxes, a technique using spectra to give ...

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