Henry Draper
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American physician and astronomer
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Henry Draper's Degrees
- Masters Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Why Is Henry Draper Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henry Draper was an American doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography. Life and work Henry Draper's father, John William Draper, was an accomplished doctor, chemist, botanist, and professor at New York University; he was also the first to photograph the moon through a telescope . Draper's mother was Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner, daughter of the personal physician to the Emperor of Brazil. His niece, Antonia Maury was also an astronomer.
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