Francis Preserved Leavenworth
Francis Preserved Leavenworth (born September 3, 1858 in Mount Vernon , Indiana , USA; † November 12, 1928 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ; also known as Frank Leavenworth ) was an American astronomer . Together with Frank Muller and Ormond Stone, he discovered many NGC / IC objects. They used a telescope with an opening width of 66 cm from the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville .
Web links
- Article by William O. Beal about Leavenworth in "Popular Astronomy", Vol. 37, p. 117, bibcode : 1929PA ..... 37..117B (English)
- Obituary in "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", Vol. 89, p. 312, bibcode : 1929MNRAS..89..312. (English)
- Photo and list of detected objects (English)
- FP Leavenworth publications in the Astrophysics Data System
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| SURNAME | Leavenworth, Francis Preserved |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leavenworth, Frank; Leavenworth, Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Vernon , Indiana , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1928 |
| Place of death | Saint Paul , Minnesota |