Slipher, Vesto Melvin

(1875–1969) astronomer; born in Mulberry, Ind. At the Lowell Observatory in Arizona (1901–69; director from 1917, emeritus from 1953), this highly honored astronomer led two solar eclipse expeditions, participated in the search that found Pluto (1930), and determined the rotations of several planets.

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