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George Ellery HaleGeorge Ellery Hale (June 29 1868 – February 21 1938) was an American astronomer. As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph. He helped found a number of observatories, including Yerkes Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory. He hired and encouraged Harlow Shapley and Edwin Hubble and did a great deal of fundraising, planning, organizing and promotion of astronomical institutions, societies and journals. Honors Awards Named after him External links Obituaries Hale, George Ellery Hale, George Ellery Hale, George Ellery
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