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Lot of Seven Signatures of Prominent Astronomers

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Lot of Seven Signatures of Prominent Astronomers
<B>Lot of Seven Signatures of Prominent Astronomers,</B></I> including: <B>Clyde Tombaugh</B></I> (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930; <B>Fritz Zwicky</B></I> (1898-1974) was an American-based Swiss astronomer. He made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy as a staff member of Mount Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory for most of his career; <B>Walter Baade</B></I> (1893 -1960) was a German astronomer who emigrated to the USA in 1931. Along with Fritz Zwicky, he proposed that supernovae could create neutron stars; <B>Leslie C. Peltier</B></I> (1900-1980), an amateur astronomer, he was a prolific discoverer of comets and also a persistent observer of variable stars. Harlow Shapley once described him as "the world's greatest non-professional astronomer"; <B>John Anderson</B></I> (1876-1959), an American astronomer at the Mt. Wilson observatory. His most notable contribution was his adaptation of the Michelson's interferometer technique for measuring close double stars; <B>Frank Ross</B></I> (1874-1960) was an American astronomer and physicist. He discovered more than 400 variable stars and over 1000 stars of high proper motion; and, <B>Thomas J. J. See</B></I> (1866-1962), an American astronomer who specialized in the study of binary stars, particularly in determining their orbits. Various sizes, some annotated, mounted on stiff card stock with a brief typed biography. Tombaugh has a small original photograph. Very fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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