biography
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| lived:
| (1855–1916)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the brother of Abbott and Amy Lowell. Born to wealth, he prospered in business, then spent the years 1883–93 in Asia, which he wrote about in such books as Soul of the Far East (1888). By the early 1890s he was concentrating on astronomy, and he used his personal fortune to build and staff an observatory (now the Lowell) in Flagstaff, AZ. From 1894 he directed important research there, but he became most famous for his predictions: the existence of another planet, confirmed by the discovery of Pluto in 1930, and the existence of intelligent life on Mars, nullified by space probes. |
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