Draper, Henry (1837-82)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3593. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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American pioneer of astronomical photography, born in Prince Edward County, VA. Made the first photograph of a stellar spectrum (Vega). His assistant WILLIAMINA FLEMING analysed the objective prism photographs of stellar spectra and formed the basis for the classification of stars, with the data eventually published by ANNIE CANNON as the Henry Draper Catalog of Stellar Spectra....

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