Portrait of astronomer George Ellery Hale

George Ellery Hale

Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, 1893. Widely considered the driving force behind Yerkes Observatory, Hale envisioned a world-class center for astronomical research and sketched many of the ideas that shaped its design and purpose.

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