HORACE WELCOME BABCOCK

From: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Sandage, Allan | Copyright information

13 SEPTEMBER 1912-29 AUGUST 2003

HORACE W. BABCOCK was one of the greatest astronomers of the twentieth century. He was a unique combination of an inventor of astronomical instruments of revolutionary design and a superb astrophysicist who began two new fields of astrophysics. He was the discoverer with his father of the very weak solar polar magnetic field that reverses with the sunspot cycle. His precision astronomical instruments were devices to analyze the data. He was the discover...

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