Everything about Walter S Adams totally explained
Walter Sydney Adams (
December 20 1876 –
May 11 1956) was an American
astronomer.
Life and work
He was born in
Antioch,
Syria to missionary parents, and was brought to the
U.S. in 1885 He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1898, then continued his education in
Germany. After returning to the U.S., he began a career in Astronomy that culminated when he became director of the
Mount Wilson Observatory.
His primary interest was the study of
stellar spectra. He worked on solar
spectroscopy and co-discovered a relationship between the relative intensities of certain
spectral lines and the
absolute magnitude of a star. He was able to demonstrate that spectra could be used to determine whether a star was a giant or a dwarf. In 1915 he began a study of the companion of
Sirius and found that despite a size only slightly larger than the
Earth, the surface of the star was brighter per unit area than the
Sun and it was about as massive. Such a star later came to be known as a
white dwarf. Along with
Theodore Dunham, he discovered the strong presence of carbon dioxide in the infrared spectrum of
Venus.
Adams died in
Pasadena, California.
Honors
Awards
Named after him
The asteroid 3145 Walter Adams.
A crater on Mars.
The Adams crater on the Moon is jointly named after him, John Couch Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.Further Information
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