- Jonathan Homer Lane
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footnotes =Jonathan Homer Lane (
August 9 ,1819 , Geneseo, New York –May 3 ,1880 ,Washington D.C. ) was an Americanastrophysicist andinventor .His education was at the Phillips Academy in
Exeter, New Hampshire . He graduated fromYale University in 1846. He worked for the U.S. Patent Office, and became a principal examiner in 1851. In 1869 he joined the Office of Weights and Measures, a part of theDepartment of the Treasury that would later become theNational Bureau of Standards .He was particularly interested in
astronomy , and was the first to perform a mathematical analysis of theSun as a gaseous body. His investigations demonstrated thethermodynamic relations betweenpressure ,temperature , anddensity of the gas within the Sun, and formed the foundation of what would in the future become the theory ofstellar evolution (seeLane-Emden equation ).Lane crater on the
Moon is named for him.Bibliography
* Lane, J. H., "On the Theoretical Temperature of the Sun", 1870, "American Journal of Science".
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