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The Yerkes Observatory is an astronomical observatory of the University of Chicago in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. It was created in 1897 by George Ellery Hale and financed by Charles T. Yerkes. The observatory represented a shift in the thinking of observatories, from mere housing for a telescope and observer, to the modern concept of observation equipment integrated with laboratory space for physics and chemistry. A 102 cm (40 inch) refracting telescope built by the master optician Alvan Clark is located inside; it was the largest telescope in the world until the construction of Mount Wilson's reflector. It remains the largest refracting telescope ever used.
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(Chinese) | 葉凱士天文臺 |
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(Japanese) | ヤーキス天文台 |
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(German) | Yerkes-Observatorium |
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(French) | Observatoire Yerkes |
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(Italian) | Osservatorio Yerkes |
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Adriaan Van Maanen (March 31 1884 – January 26 1946) was a Dutch-American astronomer. In 1911, he came to the United States to work at Yerkes Observatory. He discovered Van Maanen's star...
Edwin Brant Frost (July 16 1866 – May 14 1935) was an American astronomer. He joined the staff of Yerkes Observatory in 1898 and became its director in 1905. He was the longtime editor of the... of Struve as his successor as director of Yerkes Observatory...
refracting instruments, including the still-largest refracting telescope at the Yerkes observatory...
of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1927 and the Bruce Medal in 1929. He worked at Yerkes Observatory and pioneered the use of photographic methods to determine stellar parallaxes. He was director of Allegheny Observatory from 1905 to 1920 and Yale University Observatory from 1920 to 1941. He made...
world, the 40-inch at Yerkes Observatory, and the second largest, the 36-inch telescope at Lick Observatory. One of Clark's sons, Alvan Graham Clark, discovered the dim companion of Sirius. His other...
Jesse Leonard Greenstein (October 15 1909 – October 21 2002) was an American astronomer. He began his career at Yerkes Observatory under Otto Struve and later went to Caltech. With Louis G. Henyey he invented a new spectrograph and a wide-field camera. He directed the Caltech astronomy program...
Sherburne Wesley Burnham (December 12 1838 – March 11 1921) was an American astronomer. Worked at Yerkes Observatory. His day job was as a court reporter, except for four years as a full-time astronomer at Lick Observatory. He served as a military stenographer in the Union Army in the Civil War...
Hannah Steele, who was an assistant at Yerkes Observatory, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1920. Shortly after he became a staff member at Mount Wilson Observatory. He initially... observatories in the machine shop in his home. Craters on the Moon and on Mars are named after him. Obituary...
undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph. He helped found a number of observatories, including Yerkes Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory. He hired and encouraged Harlow Shapley and Edwin... institutions, societies and journals. The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory is named after him. He won...
part of that time working at Yerkes Observatory where he met and married Dorothy W. Block. In 1921 he returned to Athens where he became head of the Athens Observatory. He left this post due to a lack of funding and went to Arequipa, Peru to work at Boyden Station, a branch of Harvard Observatory, with...
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