George Ellery Hale
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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.
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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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External links
- Biography (http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/virtualmuseum/Hale.html)
- Bruce Medal page (http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Hale/index.html)
- Awarding of the Bruce Medal: PASP 28 (1916) 12 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0028//0000012.000.html)
- Awarding of the RAS gold medal: MNRAS 64 (1904) 388 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0064//0000388.000.html)
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Obituaries
- ApJ 87 (1938) 369 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0087//0000369.000.html)
- JRASC 32 (1938) 192 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/JRASC/0032//0000192.000.html)
- MNRAS 99 (1939) 322 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0099//0000322.000.html)
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Obs 61 (1938) 163 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0061//0000163.000.html)(not online) - PASP 50 (1938) 156 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0050//0000156.000.html)
