Word: slipher
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Professor Harold Lee Alden of Yale's South African Station, who sides with Dr. Brown, claims X is too small to influence Uranus; Dr. Frank Schlesinger, Director of Yale Observatory; Dr. Armin Otto Leuschner, astronomy professor at University of California. Chief among X supporters is Dr. Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of Lowell Observatory, whose brother. Astronomer Earl Carl Slipher, last fortnight gave out the following calculations...
...telescopes to the path in the skies where he had said his planet would be moving. The night of last Jan. 21, Clyde W. Tombaugh, 24, an assistant at the observatory, saw a strange blotch of light on a new plate. He hastily took the photograph to Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of the observatory. Dr. Slipher joyfully notified his younger brother, Earl Carl Slipher, and the rest of the staff, including Carl Otto Lampland. They were quite excited. Here visibly was Percival Lowell's proof. Night after night they rephotographed the planet. Pictures showed that it moved slightly...