Edison Pettit
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It sits within the topics 1889 births, 1962 deaths and 20th-century American people.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1889
- Works
- 12
Top works
- The application of vacuum thermocouples to problems in astrophysics
- Characteristic features of solar prominences
- Focal changes in mirrors
- The forms and motions of the solar prominences
- Lunar radiation as related to phase
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1943-11-14
Discography
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Peru
- Place of death
- Tucson
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Employer
- Mount Wilson Observatory
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- astronomy
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- date of birth
- 1889-09-22
- date of death
- 1962-05-06
- Commons category
- Edison Pettit
- name in native language
- Edison Pettit
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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