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Schlesinger, Frank

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Schlesinger, Frank (1871–1943) astronomer; born in New York City. An astronomer at the Yerkes Observatory (1903–05), he also directed the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory (1905–20) and the Yale University Observatory (1920–41). This much-honored astronomer compiled a catalogue of 4,000 stellar distances (1935) and wrote monographs about photographic methods and stellar parallaxes.


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Arthur Schlesinger, Frank Freidel, and Robert Sherwood have all dealt with him with competence and respect.
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