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NICHOLAS ULRICH MAYALL
NICHOLAS ULRICH MAYALL
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He helpec! launch the Lick Observatory's large, new, postwar telescope and then left the University of California to become the director of the still very young Kilt Peak National Observatory.
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In his senior year at Stockton High School, Nick arranged for the science club, of which he was secretary, to visit Lick Observatory, atop 4,200-foot-high Mount Hamilton, near San Jose. He was allowed!
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All the courses were taught by the professors in the Berkeley department on the campus, but many of the students clic! their thesis work on Mount Hamilton, uncler the tutelage of a Lick astronomer who became a member of their thesis committee.
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Nicholson of the Mount Wilson Observatory staff. He was a Berkeley product himself, who in 1914 at Lick cliscoverec!
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clirector of Lick Observatory, who hac! put the Crossley into operating conclition en c!
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Wright, a University of California graduate en c! a Lick Observatory staff member since 1897, was a nebular researcher en c!
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into a small apartment in the little astronomy village on the summit of Mount Hamilton, where all the astronomers livecI. One year later, on July I, 1935, Robert G
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raclial velocities of the H II regions in M 31 en c! M 33 in terms of the rotation of these two especially nearby spiral galaxies, the gravitational field!
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Mayall, along with nearly everyone else who knew Wyse, expected that he would someday become director of Lick Observatory. Even before Wyse's death, Mayall accepted a position at the Radiation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to work on radar development.
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Astronomical observations were not military secrets, en c! the enthusiastic Mayall kept the few elderly Lick astronomers still on the job at Mount Hamilton informed of Baade's epochal results.
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Hence, he welcomer! an opportunity to transfer in February 1944 to the California Institute of Technology, whose big rocket development project was clearly providing immecliately effective weapons.
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interact frequently in his later years as director of Kitt Peak National Observatory. THE 120-INCH TELESCOPE During Woric!
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former graduate students now in Pasadena, all of whom longer! to return to Mount Hamilton en c!
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Shane en c! Mayall went on to Mount Hamilton the next clay en c!
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the results the raclial velocities of the first fifty clusters. The result was important in proving that the system of globular clusters shares only slightly in the galactic rotation exhibitec!
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out a long, important program of spectroscopy of the H II regions in the spiral arms of M 3l, to better define its rotation curve. One very important paper Mayall published in observational cosmology, with Humason en c!
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Mount Hamilton. KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY Mayall left the University of California, where over a span of more than a quarter of a century he hac!
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chairman of its astronomy section, former president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, en c! president of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Extragalactic Nebulae, he clearly belonged.
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to direct Kitt Peak National Observatory. He was particularly effective in hancIling its external relations, with NSF aciministra tors, university vice-presiclents en c!
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At Lick Observatory he macle many contributions to our knowledge of gaseous nebulae, supernovae, the motions within spiral galaxies, en c! the recishifts of the galaxies in the universe.
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for him. THIS BlOG~PHICAL MEMOIR IS based largely on the written record of Mayall's research, given in his published scientific work, and of his other accomplishments and his life, drawn from hundreds of letters to, from, and about him in the Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, going back to the 1924 letter that he wrote as secretary of the Stockton High School science club.
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47:317-18. 1936 A low dispersion UV glass spectrograph for the Crossley reflector.
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Astronomical Photographs Taken at the Lick Observatory. Mount Hamilton: Lick Observatory.
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Quantitative tests of the Lick Observatory 120inch mirror. Astron.
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