Albert George Wilson
Albert George Wilson (born July 28, 1918 in Houston , Texas , † August 27, 2012 in Sebastopol , California ) was an American astronomer .
Life
Wilson received his Doctor of Philosophy (German: " Doctor of Science") from Caltech in 1947 with his work Axially Symmetric Thermal Stresses in a Semi-Infinite Solid .
From 1949 he worked at the Palomar Observatory . In 1953 he became the assistant director of the Lowell Observatory . He later joined the Rand Corporation. In 1962 he worked for the specialist magazine Icarus .
He discovered a number of asteroids (including the asteroid (10000) Myriostos on September 30, 1951 ), and was co-discoverer of the comet 107P / Wilson-Harrington , which is also registered as the near-Earth asteroid (4015) Wilson-Harrington . .
Web links
- Biography (English) ( Memento of 12 December 2012 at the Web archive archive.today )
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| SURNAME | Wilson, Albert George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 2012 |
| Place of death | Sebastopol , California |