George Phillips Bond

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George Phillips Bond (born May 20, 1825 in Dorchester , Massachusetts , † February 17, 1865 in Cambridge , Massachusetts) was an American astronomer . He was the son of the astronomer William Cranch Bond .

Life

He graduated from Harvard University in 1845 and then became an assistant to his father at the observatory. From 1859 until his death in 1865, he succeeded his father as director of the Harvard College Observatory . His cousin Edward Singleton Holden was the first director of the Lick Observatory .

In 1847 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1848 he was one of the discoverers of the Saturn moon Hyperion . He was the founder of photographic photometry. He, his father, and the Massachusetts General Hospital photographer John Adams Whipple took the first photographic image of a star in 1850 : on the night of July 16-17, 1850, they took a 100-second daguerre image of the star Vega . In addition, Bond discovered several comets and calculated their orbits. Further research concerned the planet Saturn and the Orion Nebula .

In 1865 he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society . Since 1863 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He died of complications from tuberculosis .

The asteroid (767) Bondia is named after him and his father William Cranch Bond .

The Martian crater Bond and the moon crater G. Bond are named after him.

Publications

  • Zone catalog of 4484 stars situated between 0 deg 20 'and 0 deg 40' north declination observed during the years 1854-55 . Annals of Harvard College Observatory 2 (1857) 2-2257
  • Photographical Experiments on the Positions of Stars . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 17 (1857) 230.
  • Observations of Comets and Planets made at the Observatory of Harward College Cambridge US Astronomical News 51 (1859) 273.
  • On the relative brightness of the sun and moon , 1861.
  • On the Spiral Structure of the Great Nebula of Orion . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 21 (1861) 203-207.
  • Observations upon the Great Nebula of Orion . Annals of the Harvard College Observatory 5 (1867) 1-22.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of George Philips Bond (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bond, George Phillips
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorchester , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1865
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts