George Washington Hough
George Washington Hough (born October 24, 1836 in Montgomery , New York , † January 1, 1909 in Evanston , Illinois ) was an American astronomer .
Hough discovered 627 binary stars and made systematic studies of the surface of Jupiter . He designed and constructed several instruments for astronomy , meteorology and physics . From 1862 to 1874 he was director of the Dudley Observatory in Albany , New York. In 1879 he became a professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago . He became director of the Dearborn Observatory when it was moved to Evanston. He made the original plans for the dome and electrical control of the telescope .
Web links
- Portrait of George W. Hough from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
- Publications by GW Hough in the Astrophysics Data System
- GJ Hough: George Washington Hough, Popular Astronomy, Vol. 17 (1909), pp. 197-200 (obituary, English)
- HC: George Washington Hough, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 30 (1909), p. 68 (obituary, English)
- TL: George Washington Hough, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 70 (1910), p. 302 (obituary, English)
- Literature by and about George Washington Hough in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Hockey Thomas: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing, accessed July 7, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hough, George Washington |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montgomery , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1909 |
| Place of death | Evanston , Illinois |