Background
He was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin before completing high school in Los Angeles and was accepted in the University of California, Berkeley in 1901.
He was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin before completing high school in Los Angeles and was accepted in the University of California, Berkeley in 1901.
University of California, Berkeley.
Of English and German ancestry. He worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1907 until 1948. He specialized in solar spectroscopy and mapped the distribution of magnetic fields over the Sun"s surface.
Observer 88 (1968) 174 (one paragraph)
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 10 (1969) 68.