Background
MAYALL, Nicholas was born on May 9, 1906 in Moline, 111. Son of Edwin L. Mayall, Senior and Olive Ulrich.
MAYALL, Nicholas was born on May 9, 1906 in Moline, 111. Son of Edwin L. Mayall, Senior and Olive Ulrich.
University of Calif, at Berkeley.
Assistant (Computer) Mount Wilson Observ- ’ ■ atory, Pasadena, California 1929-1931. Observing Assistant Lick Observatory 1933-1935, " Assistant Astronomer 1935-1942, Association Astronomer 1945-1949, Astronomer 1949- ■ 60. Staff; Director Kitt Peak National i Observatory, Tucson, Arizona 1960-1971.
President 1942, 1958-1959, Director 1956-1962).
North.A.S. (Chairman All"1 Astronomy Section 1958-1961, Draper Fund Committee 1959-1962, and on Space Science Board 1964-1970, now. President Commission Extragalactic Nebulae 1958-1961), Royal Astronomical Society, London.
Correspondent.
At Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1942-1943. American Astronomical Society, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Astron- " omical Society of the Pacific. Emeritus), Institute Astronomical Union.
Academy, des Sciences, Institute de France, Paris.
Married Kathleen: Czarina Boxall in 1934.