
Heber Doust Curtis
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 82 years ago |
Date of birth | June 27,1872 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Muskegon |
Michigan | |
United States | |
Date of died | January 9,1942 |
Died | Ann Arbor |
Michigan | |
United States | |
Discovered | (23400) A913 CF |
Field | Astronomy |
Job | Astronomer |
Education | University of Virginia |
University of Michigan | |
Books | Definitive Determination of the Orbit of Comet 1898 I |
Studies of the Nebulae: Made at the Lick Observatory, University of California, at Mount Hamilton, California, and Santiago, Chile | |
The Scale of the Universe, Issue 11 | |
The Scale of the Universe | |
Notable student | Helen Dodson Prince |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 547311 |
Heber Doust Curtis Life story
Heber Doust Curtis was an American astronomer. He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses, and, as an advocate and theorist that additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way, was involved in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate concerning the size and galactic structure of the universe.