Samuel Pierpont Langley

Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22 1834 in Roxbury, Massachusetts near Boston, – February 27 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor and pioneer of aviation. He was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the founder of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

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In 1886, Langley received the Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences for his contributions to solar physics.

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