Lewis Boss

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Lewis Boss (1912)

Lewis Boss (born October 26, 1846 in Providence , Rhode Island , † October 5, 1912 in Albany , New York ) was an American astronomer . His son was the astronomer Benjamin Boss .

In 1876 he became director of the Dudley Observatory in Schenectady, New York. In 1882 he led an expedition to Chile to observe the transit of Venus .

Lewis Boss is known for his cataloging of the positions and movements of stars. In 1910 he published the Preliminary General Catalog of 6188 Stars for the Epoch 1900 , a compilation of Stern movements. This catalog was continued after his death.

His most important discovery was the calculation of the convergence point of the Hyades star cluster.

Boss was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1889 and was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1905 . In 1910 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , in the same year he was admitted as a corresponding member to the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 1911 to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society .

The lunar crater Boss is named after him.

Works

  • Preliminary General Catalog of 6188 Stars for the Epoch 1900, including those visible to the naked eye and other well-determined stars. Washington DC 1910 ( digitized )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Lewis Boss. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 26, 2015 .
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Lewis Boss. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 3, 2015 .
  3. ^ Member History: Lewis Boss. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 14, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Boss, Lewis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1912
Place of death Albany , New York