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Barnard (EDWARD EMERSON an American)

EDWARD EMERSON, an American astronomer, born in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 16, 1857; graduated at Vanderbilt University in 1887; was astronomer in Lick Observatory, California, in 1887-1895, and then became Professor of Astronomy in Chicago University and Director of the Yerkes Observatory. His principal discoveries are the fifth satellite of Ju Jupiter in 1892, and 16 comets. He has made photographs of the Milky Way, the comets, nebulæ, etc. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Lelande gold medal in 1892, the Arago gold medal in 1893, the Janssen gold medal in 1900, and the Janssen prize in 1906, and the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain gave him a gold medal in 1897. He is a member of many American and foreign societies, and a contributor to astronomical journals.

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