Edison Pettit
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Edison Pettit's Degrees
- PhD Astronomy University of Chicago
- Masters Physics University of Chicago
- Bachelors Physics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edison Pettit was an American astronomer. He was born in Peru, Nebraska. Pettit received his bachelor's degree from the Nebraska State Normal School in Peru. He taught astronomy at Washburn College in Topeka, Kansas from 1914 to 1918. He married Hannah Steele Pettit, who was an assistant at Yerkes Observatory, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1920.
Edison Pettit's Published Works
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Published Works
- Lunar radiation and temperatures (1930) (176)
- Radiation Measurements on the Eclipsed Moon. (1940) (67)
- Measurements of Ultra-Violet Solar Radiation (1932) (40)
- Characteristic Features of Solar Prominences (1932) (37)
- No. 622. Spectral energy-curve of the sun in the ultraviolet. (1940) (29)
- No. 679. The properties of solar prominences as related to type. (1943) (28)
- TEMPERATURES ON THE BRIGHT AND DARK SIDES OF VENUS (1955) (25)
- Magnitudes and Color Indices of Extragalactic Nebulae Determined Photoelectrically. (1954) (22)
- Lunar Radiation as Related to Phase (1935) (20)
- Stellar radiation measurements (14)
- OBSERVATIONS OF MARS MADE AT MOUNT WILSON IN 1954 (1955) (14)
- Radiation Measures on the Planet Mars (1924) (13)
- The Evidence for Tornado Prominences (1950) (11)
- Measurements Of The Radiation From Variable Stars (1933) (10)
- NOTES FROM PACIFIC COAST OBSERVATORIES: RADIATION FROM THE DARK HEMISPHERE OF VENUS (1924) (9)
- Radiation Measurements of the Solar Corona January 24, 1925 (1925) (9)
- The Great Eruptive Prominences of may 29 and July 15, 1919 (1919) (8)
- THE LIGHT-CURVES OF T CORONAE BOREALIS (1946) (7)
- The Application Of Vacuum Thermocouples To Problems In Astrophysics (7)
- THE ROTATION OF A TORNADO PROMINENCE (1941) (6)
- Planetary Temperature Measurements (1961) (6)
- The Co-Albedo of the Moon. (1945) (6)
- No. 314. On the theory of the continuous spectrum of the corona. (1926) (6)
- MEASUREMENTS OF THE RADIATION FROM THE PLANET MERCURY (1923) (6)
- On the Color of Crater Lake Water. (1936) (5)
- Spectral Energy-Curve Of Sun-Spots (5)
- LIMB-DARKENING ON THE SUN (1939) (5)
- The forms and motions of the solar prominences ... (5)
- The Motions of Prominences of the Eruptive and Sun-Spot Types (1936) (4)
- TEMPERATURE OF THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON AND OF THE MOON DURING ECLIPSE (1927) (4)
- THE DOPPLER EFFECT IN AN ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE (1939) (4)
- Micrometric measures of double stars (1917) (4)
- AN ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OF RECORD HEIGHT, JUNE 4, 1946 (1946) (4)
- Radiation from the planet Mercury (1936) (4)
- THE LIGHT-CURVE OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1943) (3)
- LIGHT-CURVES OF Ζ AURIGAE IN FOUR COLORS (1948) (3)
- THE SECONDARY MAXIMUM OF T CORONAE BOREALIS. SECOND NOTE (1946) (3)
- THE POSSIBLE ESCAPE OF PROMINENCES FROM THE SUN (1940) (3)
- THE ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OF JANUARY 17, 1951 (1951) (3)
- THE INTERFERENCE POLARIZING MONOCHROMATOR (1941) (3)
- The Registering Microphotometer of the Mount Wilson Observatory (1923) (3)
- The Diurnal Maximum of Temperature on Mars (3)
- Transmission properties of some filters (3)
- Ultra-Violet Solar Radiation. (1927) (3)
- The visual magnitudes of double stars. (1958) (3)
- ROTATION OF TORNADO PROMINENCES DETERMINED BY DOPLER EFFECT (1946) (3)
- The Sun and Stellar Radiation (1951) (2)
- THE MOTIONS OF ERUPTIVE PROMINENCES (1951) (2)
- ULTRA-VIOLET SOLAR RADIATIONS AND ITS VARIATIONS (1926) (2)
- MOTION PICTURES OF THE OCCULTATION OF Σ ARIETIS BY JUPITER ON NOVEMBER 20, 1952 (1953) (2)
- THE REFLECTING PROPERTIES OF ALUMINUM-SURFACED MIRRORS (1934) (2)
- AN ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OF RECORD HEIGHT AND VELOCITY (1937) (2)
- THE SECONDARY MAXIMUM OF T CORONAE BOREALIS (1946) (2)
- PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE CANALS OF MARS (1953) (2)
- THE EARLIEST OBSERVATIONS OF PROMINENCES (1943) (2)
- THE ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OF AUGUST 7, 1950 (1951) (2)
- THE ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OF OCTOBER 3, 1942 (1942) (1)
- OBSERVATIONS OF SOLAR PROMINENCES WITH A LYOT TELESCOPE (1933) (1)
- THE ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OF SEPTEMBER 14, 1940 (1940) (1)
- The Use of the D’Arsonval Galvanometer in Radiation Measurements (1925) (1)
- Focal changes in mirrors (1)
- Foucault's Pendulum Experiment (1911) (1)
- THE HIGHEST ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE (1938) (1)
- THE SPECTRAL-ENERGY CURVE OF THE SUN IN THE ULTRA-VIOLET (1935) (1)
- PHOTOGRAPHING THE CANALS OF MARS (1947) (1)
- THE CANALS OF MARS (1947) (1)
- A TELESCOPE OF GALILEO (1939) (1)
- THE ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OF JUNE 3-4, 1949 (1949) (1)
- FREQUENCY OF ERUPTIVE PROMINENCES (1944) (1)
- SOME NEW PROMINENCE PHENOMENA (1937) (1)
- THE ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OF DECEMBER 23, 1950 (1951) (1)
- A SIMPLE METHOD OF CORRECTING THE ASTIGMATIC FOCUS OF A CONCAVE GRATING (1931) (1)
- MOTIONS IN THE LOOPS OF PROMINENCES OF THE SUNSPOT TYPE, CLASS III B (1938) (1)
- RADIOMETRIC MEASURES OF CERTAIN FAINT RED STARS (1927) (1)
- AN EXTRA-SOLAR PROMINENCE TRAJECTORY (1955) (1)
- THE VARIATIONS OF ENERGY IN 0 CETI (1933) (1)
- Circumstances of the total solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 (0)
- A STAR OF PECULIAR VARIABILITY (1948) (0)
- THE TOTAL RADIATION FROM O CETI (1922) (0)
- The Effective Amount of Water-Vapor in the Atmosphere at the Eclipse of January 24, 1925 (1928) (0)
- No. 705. The co-albedo of the moon. (1945) (0)
- Radiation from the planet Mercury (abstract) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1944) (0)
- VERIFYING THE LAWS OF THE PENDULUM (1914) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1943) (0)
- A MECHANICAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE SPECTROHELIOSCOPE (1940) (0)
- THE EFFECTS OF OZONE ON THE ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION IN THE ULTRA-VIOLET-A CORRECTION (1926) (0)
- THE SIMILARITY OF SOLAR PROMINENCES PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE SPECTRAL LINES HΑ AND K2 (1931) (0)
- AN INTERACTIVE PROMINENCE (1945) (0)
- THE PROMINENCE OF AUGUST 7 TO 13, 1934 (1934) (0)
- On the Distribution of the Velocities of Stars of Late Types of Spectrum (1922) (0)
- THE USE OF THE INTERFERENCE POLARIZING MONOCHROMATOR (1942) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1943) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1943) (0)
- THE TEMPERATURE OF A PROMINENCE (1939) (0)
- RADIATION MEASUREMENTS ON THE CORONA (1925) (0)
- Generation andDetection ofCoherent Elastic Wavesat114,000 Mc/sec (1966) (0)
- AN IMPROVED FORM OF THE WEDGE PHOTOMETER (1949) (0)
- No. 694. Effect of temperature on the wave length transmission band of the interference polarizing monochromator. (1944) (0)
- Ultra‐violet solar radiation and atmospheric ozone (1935) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1945) (0)
- No. 369. Stellar radiation measurements. (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF T CORONAE BOREALIS (1946) (0)
- LIGHT-CURVE OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1943) (0)
- The Sunspot with Longest Life (1951) (0)
- Development of Interactive Solar Prominences (1943) (0)
- No. 451. Characteristic features of solar prominences. (1932) (0)
- Observations on Jupiter at the Opposition, 1915 (1916) (0)
- AN OPTICAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE SPECTROHELIOSCOPE (1939) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1946) (0)
- THE DIMENSIONS OF THERMOCOUPLE RECEIVERS (1929) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1942) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDE OF T PYXIDIS (1945) (0)
- LIGHT-CURVES OF AC HERCULIS (1948) (0)
- Note on a Device for Setting a Heliostat in the Meridian (1916) (0)
- Derivative approximation for recursive signal detection (1970) (0)
- PHOTO-CHEMICAL EFFECTS OF SUNLIGHT ON GREEN CELLULOID AND GLASS (1927) (0)
- PHOTOCHEMICAL EFFECTS OF ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT ON GLASS (1928) (0)
- Micrometric measures of double stars, made with the 12-inch refractor at the Washburn College Observatory (1921) (0)
- REVIEW OF ACROSS THE SPACE FRONTIER EDITED BY CORNELIUS RYAN (1952) (0)
- Effect of Temperature on the Wave Length of a Transmission Band of the Interference Polarizing Monochromator. (1944) (0)
- THE LIGHT-CURVES OF T CORONAE BOREALIS (1946) (0)
- SOME EVIDENCE OF THE ELECTRICAL NATURE OF PROMINENCES (1931) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1945) (0)
- A Second Law of the Motions of Eruptive Prominences. (1936) (0)
- DISTRIBUTION OF CHROMOSPHERIC RADIATION OVER THE SOLAR DISK (1936) (0)
- THE INTERACTIVE PROMINENCE OF SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1947 (1947) (0)
- Celestial Photography with the Washburn Telescope (1916) (0)
- THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF FUSED AND CRYSTAL QUARTZ (1928) (0)
- ENERGY CURVE OF THE LUNAR SPECTRUM IN THE VISUAL REGION (1926) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1944) (0)
- VISUAL MAGNITUDES OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1944) (0)
- A METHOD OF FINDING THE MERIDIAN BY SHADOWS, AND MECHANICALLY GRADUATING A SUN‐DIAL (1910) (0)
- PHOTOMETRY OF Α ORIONIS (1945) (0)
- AN ELEMENTARY EXPOSITION OF THE TIDES (0)
- THE ACCURACY OF THE REGISTERING MICROPHOTOMETER (1929) (0)
- HEIGHT OF CLOUDS AT SUNSET (1915) (0)
- THE PROMINENCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE ECLIPSE OF AUGUST 31, 1932 (1933) (0)
- THE TEN BRIGHTEST STARS (1928) (0)
- REVIEW OF THE ASTRONOMICAL UNIVERSE BY WASLEY S. KROGDAHL (1952) (0)
- DETERMINING THE SPEED OF A CAMERA SHUTTER BY A THERMOELECTRIC METHOD (1942) (0)
- A QUASI-ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE OBSERVED IN HYDROGEN (1938) (0)
- A Concise History of Astronomy (1951) (0)
- THERMOCOUPLE OBSERVATIONS ON THE TOTAL RADIATION FROM VARIABLE STARS OF LONG PERIOD (1922) (0)
- Measurements of ultra-violet solar radiation during the past six years (abstract) (1931) (0)
- Time of a solar eclipse from a sound film (abstract) (1931) (0)
- LIGHT-CURVE OF NOVA PUPPIS 1942 (1949) (0)
- TOTAL RADIATION FROM R AQUARII (1922) (0)
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