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Encyclopedia > Walter Sydney Adams

Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 – May 11, 1956) was an American astronomer.


He was born in Syria to missionary parents.


Among other things, 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 won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1917 and the Henry Draper Medal in 1918. He won the Bruce Medal in 1928. He won the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 1947.


The asteroid 3145 Walter Adams is named after him.


A crater on Mars is named after him. A crater on the Moon is jointly named after him, John Couch Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.


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Walter Sydney Adams Papers, American Philosophical Society (1104 words)
An expert in stellar spectroscopy, Walter Sydney Adams (1876-1956) made important empirical contributions to the analysis of the physical conditions of stellar and planetary atmospheres, determining the distances to extragalactic objects, and understanding stellar evolution.
An expert in stellar spectroscopy, Walter Sydney Adams was born of American missionary parents in the Syrian village of Kassab in 1876.
In recognition of his efforts, Adams was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1915, and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1917, and the Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.
Walter Sydney Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (267 words)
Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 – May 11, 1956) was an American astronomer.
He was born in Antioch, Syria to missionary parents, and was brought to the U.S. in 1885.
The Adams crater on the Moon is jointly named after him, John Couch Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.
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