- Seth Carlo Chandler
Infobox Scientist
name = PAGENAME
box_width =
image_width =150px
caption = PAGENAME
birth_date =September 16 1846
birth_place =Boston ,Massachusetts
death_date =December 31 1913
death_place =
residence =
citizenship =
nationality =United States
ethnicity =
field =astronomy
work_institutions =
alma_mater =
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students =
known_for =Chandler wobble
author_abbrev_bot =
author_abbrev_zoo =
influences =Benjamin A. Gould
influenced =
prizes =Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1896James Craig Watson Medal in 1894
religion =
footnotes =Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. (
September 16 1846 –December 31 1913 ) was an Americanastronomer .He was born in
Boston ,Massachusetts . During his last year in high school he performed mathematical computations forBenjamin Peirce , of theHarvard College Observatory .After graduating, he became the assistant of
Benjamin A. Gould . Gould was director of the Longitude Department of the U.S. Coast Survey program, a geodetic survey program. When Gould left to become director of the national observatory inArgentina , Chandler also left and became an actuary. However, he continued to work in astronomy as an amateur affiliated with Harvard College Observatory. Chandler is best remembered for his research on what is today known as theChandler wobble . His research on this spanned nearly three decades.Chandler also made contributions to other areas of astronomy, including
variable star s. He independently co-discovered thenova T Coronae Borealis , improved the estimate of theconstant of aberration , and computed the orbital parameters ofasteroid s andcomet s.Chandler was awarded the
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1896 and theJames Craig Watson Medal in 1894.Chandler crater on the
Moon is named after him.References
*"Latitude, How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation" by Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD., 2002.
External links
* [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/schandler.html Biography] (National Academy of Sciences)
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.