William Wallace Campbell
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 86 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 11,1862 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Hancock County |
| Ohio | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | June 14,1938 |
| Died | San Francisco |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Children | Douglas Campbell |
| Job | Astronomer |
| Education | University of Michigan |
| Awards | Bruce Medal |
| Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| Henry Draper Medal | |
| Janssen Medal | |
| Lalande Prize | |
| Current partner | Elizabeth Ballard Campbell |
| Books | The Mills Spectrograph of the Lick Observatory: Some Stars with Great Velocities in the Line of Sight. The Variable Velocity of N Pegasi in the Line of Sight |
| The Scientific Monthly October, 1915: The Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth | |
| Biographical Memoir of Edward Singleton Holden, 1846-1914: National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, V8 | |
| The Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1096908 |
William Wallace Campbell Life story
William Wallace Campbell was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy. He was the tenth president of the University of California from 1923 to 1930.
