Person:Asaph Hall (10)

Notes

• professor of astronomy, Michigan University
• 1892-1905 - director, Detroit Observatory

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 White, James Terry. The National cyclopædia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state. (New York: J.T. White, 1893 - )
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2. ↑ ASAPH HALL, JR. [1], in Michigan Astro History website.

   DIRECTOR 1892-1905
   Asaph Hall, Jr. was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 6, 1859. He was the son of the famous astronomer, Asaph Hall, Sr., who was trained by Brünnow at the Detroit Observatory and made his career at the United States Naval Observatory. Asaph Hall, Jr. was trained at Harvard and Yale, receiving his doctorate from Yale in 1889. Hall worked as an assistant astronomer at the Naval Observatory before becoming the director of the Detroit Observatory in 1892, following William J. Hussey’s brief term as Acting Director. Upon becoming director, Hall cleaned and readjusted the Observatory’s instruments, resumed Brünnow’s work on the meridian circle telescope, and published widely. When heleft Ann Arbor in 1905, he returned to the Naval Observatory. He retired in 1929 and fell ill and died just a few months later, in 1930.

3.   Asaph Hall Jr., in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
   includes sources, last accessed Jun 2025.

   Asaph Hall IV (October 6, 1859 – January 12, 1930), known as Asaph Hall Jr., was an American astronomer. He was the son of Asaph Hall, who discovered the moons of the planet Mars. One of his brothers was Percival Hall. ...