This is a small distinction, perhaps, but an important one for an organization whose record of founding successful observatories stretches back to
George Ellery Hale and Mount Wilson.
GALILEO GALILEI, Isaac Newton, William Herschel, William Huggins,
George Ellery Hale, Arthur Eddington, Harlow Shapley, and Edwin Hubble are all nicely profiled in this volume subtitled "The Astro-Physicists." In sprightly prose, often interlaced with quotes, Ian Glass weaves together these eight lives (warts and all) and their scientific careers.
Dedicated in 1897, Yerkes continues to house the world's largest refractor--the 40-inch commissioned by
George Ellery Hale. The observatory is also home to 41- and 24-inch reflectors.
MWO was founded in 1904 as the brainchild of
George Ellery Hale, a dynamic individual whose fundraising acumen had earlier established Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin and would later gave rise to the 200-inch telescope that now bears his name at Palomar Observatory.
Named after
George Ellery Hale, this 150-by-125-kilometer-wide (90-by-80-mile) crater resides just north of the Argyre Basin in Mars's southern hemisphere.
American astronomer
George Ellery Hale was an ardent proponent of the new astrophysics.
ASCENDING THE PRIMITIVE MULE trail to Southern California's remote Wilson's Peak in 1903, solar astronomer
George Ellery Hale, founding director of Yerkes Observatory, envisioned a professional research observatory at the summit that would lead the world in the "New Astronomy"--astrophysics.
Panek explores the discoveries made since Galileo - the findings of William Herschel and
George Ellery Hale, among others, that have forever changed our sense of the universe.
Pickering at Harvard and
George Ellery Hale, thunder of the Yerkes and Mount Wilson observatories, were pioneers in advancing astrophysics, some of those in the old school resented such advances.
Then in 1908
George Ellery Hale at Mount Wilson Observatory found sunspots to have strong magnetic fields of up to several thousand gauss.