George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale (June 29 1868 – February 21 1938) was an American solar astronomer.
As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph.
He helped found a number of observatories, including Yerkes Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory. At Mount Wilson, he hired and encouraged Harlow Shapley and Edwin Hubble and did a great deal of fundraising, planning, organizing and promotion of astronomical institutions, societies and journals. Hale also played a central role in the development of Pasadena's California Institute of Technology (Caltech) into a leading research university.
Honors
Awards
- Henry Draper Medal in 1904.
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1904.
- Bruce Medal in 1916.
- Copley Medal in 1932.
Named after him
- Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory.
- 22-year solar Hale Cycle.
- Asteroid 1024 Hale.
- Hale crater on the Moon.
- Hale crater on Mars.
External links
- Biography
- Bruce Medal page
- Awarding of the Bruce Medal: PASP 28 (1916) 12
- Awarding of the RAS gold medal: MNRAS 64 (1904) 388
Obituaries
- ApJ 87 (1938) 369
- JRASC 32 (1938) 192
- MNRAS 99 (1939) 322
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Obs 61 (1938) 163(not online) - PASP 50 (1938) 156