Edward Charles Pickering
Edward Charles Pickering , born with Boston the July 19th 1846 and died in Cambridge (Massachusetts) the February 3rd 1919, is a Astronome and American physicist , brother of another famous astronomer, William Henry Pickering.
Biography
With the German astronomer Hermann Carl Vogel, Pickering was the first to discover a star spectroscopic Binaire.
He was also director of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO, Observatoire of the university of Harvard ), where he achieves large projections in the spectral data-gathering on stars, in particular thanks to the use of the Astrophotographie. In Harvard, it recruited a good number of female colleagues astronomers, in particular Annie Jump Canon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Williamina Fleming and Antonia Maury. These women, sometimes called in the scientific community the “harem of Pickering”, carried out the important discovered ones with the HCO under the crook of Pickering.
Pickering discovers Phœbé, the ninth moon of Saturn, in 1898, and seven years later it tenth, THEMIS. It receives the Prix Lalande for this discovery in 1906.
In 1911, it off Co-founded with William Tyler Olcott the American Association Variable Star Observers (AAVSO, American Association of the variable star observers ).
Rewards
- Gold medal of Royal Astronomical Society in 1886 and 1901,
- Price Rumford in 1891 for its work on the spectra of the stars
- Henry Medal To drape in 1888,
- Price Lalande in 1906,
- Medal Bruce in 1908.
Éponymes
All three pay to him homage like to his/her brother
External bonds
Obituaries
- YEAR ''' 208 ''' (1919) 133/134 (in German)
- JRASC ''' 13 ''' (1919) 160
- MNRAS ''' 80 ''' (1920) 360
- PASP ''' 31 ''' (1919) 73
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