Keeler, James Edward (1857-1900)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3761. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in La Salle, IL. In 1881 went with a pack train of mules, loaded with mirrors, telescopes and bolometers, to the 14 495 foot summit of Mount Whitney, California (the highest elevation in the contiguous United States), to measure, undisturbed by the atmosphere, the infrared spectrum of the Sun and its flux, the `solar constant'. Became director of the Allegheny and Lick observator...

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