George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale (June 29 1868 – February 21 1938) was an American astronomer. As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph. He helped found a number of observatories, including Yerkes Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory. He hired and encouraged Harlow Shapley and Edwin Hubble and did a great deal of fundraising, planning, organizing and promotion of astronomical institutions, societies and journals.
Honors
AwardsHenry Draper Medal in 1904.Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1904.Bruce Medal in 1916.Copley Medal in 1932. Named after him Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory.22-year solar Hale Cycle.Asteroid 1024 Hale.Hale crater on the Moon.Hale crater on Mars.
External links Biography Bruce Medal page Awarding of the Bruce Medal: PASP 28 (1916) 12 Awarding of the RAS gold medal: MNRAS 64 (1904) 388
Obituaries ApJ 87 (1938) 369 JRASC 32 (1938) 192 MNRAS 99 (1939) 322 Obs 61 (1938) 163 (not online) PASP 50 (1938) 156
|
|
