George Ellery Hale

George Ellery Hale (June 29 1868 – February 21 1938) was an American solar astronomer.

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As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph.

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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.

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George Ellery Hale: Honors ►

June 29: June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining....

1868: 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar)....

February 21: February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 313 days remaining, 314 in leap years....

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