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William Henry Pickering | |
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 Pickering in 1909 | |
| Born | February 15, 1858 |
| Died | January 16, 1938 (aged 79) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1897) |
| Relatives | Edward Charles Pickering (brother) |
| Awards | Lalande Prize (1905) Prix Jules Janssen (1909) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer.[1] Pickering constructed and established several observatories or astronomical observation stations, notably including Percival Lowell's Flagstaff Observatory. He spent much of the later part of his life at his private observatory in Jamaica.
- ^ Colby, Frank Moore; Williams, Talcott (1918). "William Henry Pickering". New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 18. p. 605.
He was born in Boston and in 1879 graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was an assistant and instructor in physics in 1880–1887. In the latter year, he was appointed assistant professor of astronomy at the Harvard Observatory. Pickering led eclipse expeditions to Colorado (1878), Grenada (1886), California (1889), Chile (1893), and Georgia (1900); discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn, in 1899, and later Themis, the tenth satellite; made lunar observations in California in 1904; and visited Hawaii (1905) and the Azores (1907). He received the Lalande Prize in 1905 and the Janssen Medal in 1909. His publications include: Guide to Mount Washington Range (1882); The Moon (1903); Lunar and Hawaiian Physical Features Compared (1906)