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Heber Doust Curtis

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Gender Male
Death81 years ago
Date of birth June 27,1872
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Muskegon
Michigan
United States
Date of died January 9,1942
DiedAnn Arbor
Michigan
United States
Discovered(23400) A913 CF
Field Astronomy
Job Astronomer
Education University of Virginia
University of Michigan
BooksDefinitive Determination of the Orbit of Comet 1898 I
Studies of the Nebulae: Made at the Lick Observatory, University of California, at Mount Hamilton, California, and Santiago, Chile
The Scale of the Universe, Issue 11
The Scale of the Universe
Notable student Helen Dodson Prince
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Heber Doust Curtis Life story


Heber Doust Curtis was an American astronomer. He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses, and, as an advocate and theorist that additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way, was involved in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate concerning the size and galactic structure of the universe.

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