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19th century scientist comparison table
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Annie Jump Cannon  astronomy      astronomer the Henry Draper Catalog of spectral types   Havard College Observatory    
Antonia Maury  astronomy      astronomer     Havard College Observatory    
Cecilia Payne Gaposhkin  astronomy      astronomer     Havard College Observatory    
CurtisHeber Doust Curtis astronomy   
  • 1893 : classics, U. Michigan
  • 1902 : PhD. U. Virginia
  19th century scientist1942, PASP 54, 54.   January 9, 1942
  • 1893-1900 : Taught Latin & Greek, later math
  • 1902-1920 : Lick
  • 1920-1930 : Director, Allegheny
  • 1931-1942 : Director, U. Michigan Observatories
1872   
HaleGeorge Ellery Hale astronomy  Shapley
  • 1890 : BSc. MIT
  • 12 honorary PhDs
  19th century scientist  21 February 193829 June 1868   
Hertzsprung  astronomy      19th century scientist          
HubbleEdwin Powell Hubble astronomy   
  • 1910 : BSc. U. Chicago
  • 1913 : law, Oxford
  • 1917 : PhD. Yerkes, ("Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae", Frost as supervisor)
  19th century scientist  September 28, 1953November 20, 1889   
HumasonMilton La Salle Humason astronomy      19th century scientist   Mayall      
LeavittHenrietta Leavittreaserch assistant, Harvard College Observatory, 1908astronomy discovered 2400 Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud    19th century scientist the Cepheid period-luminosity relation used in Cepheid distance determination Pickering      
LowellPercival Lowell astronomy   1876 Harvard (distinction in mathematics)  19th century scientist Lowell Observatory (financed with his own money)  1916    believes he observed a network of linear canals on the planet Mars built by extraterrestrial beings
LundmarkKnut Lundmark astronomy     Sweden19th century scientist          
MayallNick Mayall astronomy      19th century scientist   Humason      
Niels Bohr  physics      19th century scientist          
Otto Struve  astronomy      astronomer   6 April 196312 August 1897   
PickeringEdward C. Pickering astronomy      astronomer the Henry Draper Catalog of spectral types  Havard College Observatory    
ShapleyHarlow Shapley astronomy  van Maanen as a collegue at Mt. Wilson
  • 1911 : B.Sc. astronomy, University of Missouri
  • 1913 : PhD. Princeton University ("Eclipsing binary stars")
ignored Humason's observations of Cepheids in Andromeda galaxy 19th century scientistKopal, Z. : 1972, Nature 240, 429.structure and scale of our galaxy determined from accurate globular cluster distances 20 October 19722 November 1885   
SlipherVesto Melvin Slipher astronomy   Indiana Univ.  19th century scientist   8 November 196911 November 18751918, PASP 30, 346.. Discussion about the spectra of 'spiral nebula' NGC 4449 and NGC 4214, but no spectra actually published (claims 200 km/s and 300 km/s recession velocities respectively)Hall, J.S. : 1989, PASP 101, 887. : He discovered the high velocities and rotation of nebulous objects later identified as galaxies. He measured the velocities of 41 of these objects. In 1929 Hubble derived his important velocity-distance relationship using, as he later wrote Slipher, "your velocities and my distances" 
van MaanenAdrian van Maanen astronomyMt. Wilson     19th century scientist          

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