George Ellery Hale

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Sources

1. ArticleThe Possibilities of Large Telescopes
2. BookThe Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope

founded:

• Mount Wilson Observatorysince 1904

  Sources: Our History

gave its name to:

• Hale Telescope

  Sources: The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope

Appears in3 items

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  Telescopes: Galileo to JWST3 items
  • The great reflectors · builder8 Dec 1908
  • 
    First light of the Hooker telescope · director2 Nov 1917
  • 
    First light of the Hale telescope · proposer26 Jan 1949