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Profile of George Hale
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George Hale |
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28th October 1849 |
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Colton, New York, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American solar astronomer.
As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph.
He helped found a number of observatories, including Yerkes Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory. At Mount Wilson, 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. Hale also played a central role in the development of Pasadena's California Institute of Technology (Caltech) into a leading research university.
Honors
Awards
- Henry 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.
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