Stewart Sharpless
American astronomer
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- PhD Astronomy University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stewart Sharpless was an American astronomer who carried out fundamental work on the structure of the Milky Way galaxy. As a graduate student at Yerkes Observatory he worked under William Morgan with fellow graduate student Don Osterbrock. He helped Harold Johnson and Morgan with calculations used to help define the UBV photometric system. In 1952, Sharpless and Osterbrock published their observations that demonstrated the spiral structure of the Milky Way by estimating the distances to H II regions and young hot stars. For a while Sharpless was at Mount Wilson Observatory where he worked on galaxy photography with Walter Baade and Edwin Hubble.
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