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George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American astrophysicist, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and as the leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes; namely, the 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory, 60-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker ...
George Ellery Hale nació el 29 de junio de 1868 en Chicago, Illinois; hijo de William Ellery Hale y de Maria Browne. 2 Era descendiente de Thomas Hale of Watton-on-Stone, Hertfordshire, Inglaterra, cuyo hijo emigró a los Estados Unidos hacia 1640. 2 El padre adquirió una considerable fortuna con la fabricación e instalación de ascensores ...
11 de mar. de 2024 · George Ellery Hale (born June 29, 1868, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Feb. 21, 1938, Pasadena, Calif.) was an American astronomer known for his development of important astronomical instruments, including the Hale Telescope, a 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory, near San Diego. The most effective entrepreneur in 20th-century ...
Andrew Carnegie and George Ellery Hale posed near the 60-inch telescope on Mount Wilson during Carnegie’s 1910 visit. Afterwards, Carnegie provided more funding for the Observatory, which he termed “the pulpit of the universe.”. But, as Walter S. Adams noted, “In 1910, after six years of active and productive work, the first shadows of ...
George Ellery Hale was born in Chicago on June 29, 1868. A single child heir to his family's considerable fortune, Hale developed an interest in astronomy at a young age. He benefited from the continuing moral and financial support of his father, who during his childhood and teenage years purchased him telescopes and spectrometers of increasing ...
George Ellery Hale fue un astrónomo solar estadounidense, conocido especialmente por sus descubrimientos sobre el magnetismo solar. También fue la figura clave en la planificación o construcción de varios telescopios líderes en el mundo; como el telescopio refractor de 40 pulgadas del Observatorio Yerkes, los telescopios reflectores de 60 y de 100 pulgadas del Observatorio del Monte ...
George Hale began studying the solar spectrum as a wealthy teenager in Chicago. As an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he invented the spectroheliograph. He worked in his private Kenwood observatory two years before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago, for which he built the Yerkes Observatory and its 40-inch refractor. To expand solar observations and ...
