Heber Doust Curtis (June 27, 1872 – January 9, 1942) was an American astronomer. He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses,[2] and, as an advocate and theorist that additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way, was involved in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate concerning the size and galactic structure of the universe.
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HeberDoustCurtis (June 27, 1872 – January 9, 1942) was an American astronomer. He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses, and...
the 1920 Great Debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and HeberDoustCurtis, observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one...
department in south-western France HeberDoustCurtis (1872–1942), American astronomer This page lists people with the surname Doust. If an internal link intending...
first classified as a planetary nebula in 1918 by the astronomer HeberDoustCurtis. However, others might have previously recognized it as a planetary...
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the Milky Way Galaxy far away from the Sun, towards Sagittarius. HeberDoustCurtis and Edwin Hubble further refuted the heliocentric view of the universe...
of the universe revolved around a point in the Pleiades. In 1917, HeberDoustCurtis observed a nova within what then was called the "Andromeda Nebula"...
that the majority of these nebulae are moving away from us. In 1917, HeberDoustCurtis observed nova S Andromedae within the "Great Andromeda Nebula", as...
throughout this paper. Between 1917 and 1922, it became clear from work by HeberDoustCurtis, Ernst Öpik and others that some objects ("nebulae") seen by astronomers...
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theories were the subject of the Great Debate between Harlow Shapley and HeberDoustCurtis in April 1920. Shapley believed that spiral galaxies were nearby objects...
eventually replaced by galactocentrism due to the work of Harlow Shapley, HeberDoustCurtis and Edwin Hubble in the 20th century. All three men used significantly...
now heralded as the "Shapley-Curtis Great Debate" aptly named after the astronomers Harlow Shapley and HeberDoustCurtis that debated the nature of "nebulae"...
vice president; elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1899 HeberDoustCurtis, worked at Lick Observatory 1902–1920, continuing the survey of nebulae...
President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1876) January 9 HeberDoustCurtis, American astronomer (b. 1872) Jan Graliński, Polish general (b. 1895)...
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Garden to retain the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Died: HeberDoustCurtis, 69, American astronomer Port Swettenham 24 miles southwest of Kuala...
Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 HeberDoustCurtis (1872–1942): American astronomer; known for his participation in the...
discovered to be a spectroscopic binary by William Wallace Campbell and HeberDoustCurtis in 1905 from photographic plates taken at the Lick Observatory between...
Odell Lovett, first President of Rice Institute (now Rice University) HeberDoustCurtis, director of Lick Observatory and Allegheny Observatory James Park...
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (1955) Scientific career Fields Astronomy Institutions University of Michigan Doctoral advisor HeberDoustCurtis...
Bibcode:2005MNRAS.356..979M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08514.x. Curtis, HeberDoust (1988). "Novae in Spiral Nebulae and the Island Universe Theory"...
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