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Asaph Hall (1829–1907) was an American astronomer, mathematician, and carpenter. Born in Goshen, he died in Annapolis. Hall worked for Harvard University and the Old Naval Observatory. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Lalande Prize, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Hall’s notable works include *Observations of Double Stars Made at the United States Naval Observatory* and *Volume 1, Observations and Orbits of the Satellites of Mars*. He also contributed to *Popular Science*. He was married to Angeline Stickney and had a child named Percival Hall.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Observations of Double Stars Made at the United States Naval Observatory; Volume 1
- Observations and Orbits of the Satellites of Mars
- Observations of Double Stars Made at the United States Naval Observatory
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1967
- Active to
- 2024-04
Discography
- Whole Oats1972
- Abandoned Luncheonette1973
- War Babies1974
- Daryl Hall & John Oates1975
- Bigger Than Both of Us1976
- Beauty on a Back Street1977
- Along the Red Ledge1978
- X‐Static1979
- Voices1980
- Private Eyes1981
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features
· 2010 · cited 27,586x
- SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique
· 2002 · cited 26,576x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,979x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
via Crossref · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Asaph Hall III (October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars.
Biography
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