biography
pronunciation:
[shlezinjer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1943)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in New York City, New York, USA. An astronomer at the Yerkes Observatory (1903–5), he also directed the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory (1905–20) and the Yale University Observatory (1920–41). A much-honoured astronomer, he compiled a catalogue of 4000 stellar distances (1935) and wrote monographs about photographic methods and stellar parallaxes. |
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