William Henry Pickering

William Henry Pickering
Pickering in 1909
BornFebruary 15, 1858
DiedJanuary 16, 1938(1938-01-16) (aged 79)
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (1897)
RelativesEdward Charles Pickering
AwardsLalande Prize (1905)
Prix Jules Janssen (1909)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy

William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer.[1] Pickering constructed and established several observatories or astronomical observation stations, notably including Percival Lowell's Flagstaff Observatory. He led solar eclipse expeditions and studied craters on the Moon, and hypothesized that changes in the appearance of the crater Eratosthenes were due to "lunar insects".[2] He spent much of the later part of his life at his private observatory in Jamaica.

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  2. ^ Moore, Patrick (1999). The wandering astronomer. Bristol; Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Pub. ISBN 9780750306935.

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