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Samuel Alfred Mitchell
Samuel Alfred Mitchell at McCormick Observatory
Born
Samuel Alfred Mitchell

April 29, 1874
Kingston, Ontario
DiedFebruary 22, 1960(1960-02-22) (aged 85)
Bloomington, Indiana
OccupationAstronomer
ChildrenAllan C. G. Mitchell
RelativesAlice Rivlin (grandchild)

Samuel Alfred Mitchell (April 29, 1874 – February 22, 1960) was a Canadian-American astronomer who studied solar eclipses and set up a program to use photographic techniques to determine the distance to stars at McCormick Observatory, where he served as the director.

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science-fiction film Queen of Outer Space. Mitchell was born in Manhattan on July 14, 1928. Her parents were Samuel and Adele Koren. She began her career in...

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murdered together with her husband Samuel Blits, their six-year-old daughter Nanny and their two-year-old son Alfred in the Auschwitz concentration camp...

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had dinner and drank together nearly daily. In the same year, Mitchell met the author Samuel Beckett for the first time. Their relationship was both personal...

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