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George Washington Hough[pronunciation?] (October 24, 1836 – January 1, 1909)[1] was an American astronomer.
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| Born | October 24, 1836 |
| Died | January 1, 1909 (aged 72) |
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Biography
editGeorge Washington Hough was born in Tribes Hill, New York on October 24, 1836.[2][3] He earned his BA at Union College in New York in 1856, and for a time served as a school principal in Dubuque, Iowa and as an assistant astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory.[4]
From 1862 to 1874, Hough was director of Dudley Observatory, Albany, New York. In 1879 he was appointed professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago. He became the director of Dearborn Observatory when the observatory was moved to Evanston, Illinois. He introduced original plans for the dome and electric control for the telescope. He discovered 627 double stars and made systematic studies of the surface of Jupiter. He designed and constructed several instruments used in astronomy, meteorology, and physics.
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1872.[5]
He died at his home in Evanston on January 1, 1909.[6]
References
edit- ^ Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
- ^ Hough, George J. (April 1909). "George Washington Hough". Popular Astronomy. 17: 197–200. Bibcode:1909PA.....17..197H.
- ^ "George Washington Hough". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 70 (4): 302–304. February 11, 1910. doi:10.1093/mnras/70.4.302a.
- ^ Wise, George (2004). Civic Astronomy [electronic resource] : Albany's Dudley Observatory, 1852-2002. Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-2678-2.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
- ^ "Prof. Hough Dies Suddenly". Chicago Tribune. January 2, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved January 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
edit- Portrait of George W. Hough from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections Archived July 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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