Samuel Langley
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American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.
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