Noted American astronomer. PhD., University of Virginia. Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Astonomer, Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia. Director, Allegheny Observatory from 1920 to 1930. Participant in the Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 regarding the scale of the universe. Publications included: Methods of Silvering Mirrors (1911); Astonomical Problems of the Sourth Hemisphere (1911); Studies of the Nebulae Made at the Lick Observatory, University of California, at Mount Hamilton, California, and Santiago, Chile (1918); Modern Theories of the Spiral Nebulae (1921); The Scale of the Universe (co-author with Harlow Shapley, 1921); Interference in the Solar Corona (co-author, 1930); Das Sternsystem, Erster Teil II (1933); The Nebulae (1933); An Ephemeris of 467 A.D. (1935): James Craig Watson, 1838-1880 (1938); The Comet-Seeker Hoax (1938); Notes in Cosmology (1939); The New McGregor Building and 70-foot Tower Telescope of the McMath-Hulbert Observatory (1940); Biographical and Bibliographical Record of the Staff of the Department of Astronomy to November 1, 1941 (1941); and, One Scientist's Religiion-From Articles by Professor Heber Doust Curtis, Synthesized by his colleague, Will Carl Rufus (1944).
Noted American astronomer. PhD., University of Virginia. Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Astonomer, Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia. Director, Allegheny Observatory from 1920 to 1930. Participant in the Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 regarding the scale of the universe. Publications included: Methods of Silvering Mirrors (1911); Astonomical Problems of the Sourth Hemisphere (1911); Studies of the Nebulae Made at the Lick Observatory, University of California, at Mount Hamilton, California, and Santiago, Chile (1918); Modern Theories of the Spiral Nebulae (1921); The Scale of the Universe (co-author with Harlow Shapley, 1921); Interference in the Solar Corona (co-author, 1930); Das Sternsystem, Erster Teil II (1933); The Nebulae (1933); An Ephemeris of 467 A.D. (1935): James Craig Watson, 1838-1880 (1938); The Comet-Seeker Hoax (1938); Notes in Cosmology (1939); The New McGregor Building and 70-foot Tower Telescope of the McMath-Hulbert Observatory (1940); Biographical and Bibliographical Record of the Staff of the Department of Astronomy to November 1, 1941 (1941); and, One Scientist's Religiion-From Articles by Professor Heber Doust Curtis, Synthesized by his colleague, Will Carl Rufus (1944).
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