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Horace W. Babcock

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American astronomer

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#1573
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#444
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Astronomy
#125
World Rank
#305
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#70
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According to Wikipedia, Horace Welcome Babcock was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock. Career Babcock invented and built a number of astronomical instruments, and in 1953 was the first to propose the idea of adaptive optics. He specialized in spectroscopy and the study of magnetic fields of stars. He proposed the Babcock Model, a theory for the magnetism of sunspots.

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