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Vesto Slipher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vesto Melvin Slipher (November 11, 1875 – November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer. His brother Earl C. Slipher was also an astronomer and a director at the Lowell Observatory.
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Educated at the University of Indiana, Slipher spent his entire career at the Lowell Observatory (1902-1952), serving as its director from 1916 on. His visible and infrared spectroscopic studies of planets led to the determination of rotation periods and the identification of molecules in planetary atmospheres.
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VESTO MELVIN SLIPHER, a pioneer in the field of astro- nomical spectroscopy during his long ... Vesto Melvin Slipher, who was almost always referred to ...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Slipher, Vesto Melvin. Slipher, Vesto Melvin. Information about Slipher, Vesto Melvin in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Slipher was born in Mulberry, Indiana, attended Indiana University, and in 1902 joined the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. He was director of the observatory 1926–52.
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Apr 22, 2009 ... Slipher, Vesto Melvin (18751969), a United States astronomer. He made perhaps more basic contributions in various fields of astronomy than ...
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Basic biographical information and information on his major areas of study/research. Letters from Slipher at Lowell Observatory to Bryan at Indiana University where Slipher had been a student.
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Slipher, Vesto Melvin 1875-1969 - 1910's Science and Technology at eNotes ... Vesto M. Slipher was born into a farming family on 11 November 1875 in Mulberry, Indiana. After high school Slipher taught in a small country school, At twenty-one he enrolled at Indiana University, graduating in 1901 with a B.A.
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Slipher discovered and measured the rotations of the spirals. He also supervised the successful search for a ninth planet. ... 1935 Vesto M. Slipher; 1949 Harold Spencer Jones; 1973 Lyman Spitzer, Jr.; 1941 Joel Stebbins; 1959 Bengt Strömgren; 1948 Otto Struve; 2000 Rashid A. Sunyaev; 1927 Herbert Hall Turner;
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