Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3672. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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American astrophysicist, born in Chicago, IL, as an undergraduate at MIT invented the spectroheliograph, which made it possible to photograph the Sun's prominences in daylight. At the University of Chicago he used a 40 in lens as the basis for the telescope of the Yerkes Observatory, completed 1897. Founded Mount Wilson Observatory, where he discovered the magnetic fields in sunspots. Planned and...

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