William Wallace Campbell

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William Wallace Campbell (April 11, 1862 – June 14, 1938) was an American astronomer.

He was director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy.

Campbell was a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, he catalogued the radial velocities of stars, and was a director of Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. He served as President of the University of California from 1923 1930. He committed suicide in 1938.

[edit] Honors

Awards

• Henry Draper Medal (1906)
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1906)
• Bruce Medal (1915)

Named after him

• Campbell crater on the Moon
• Crater on Mars
• Asteroid 2751 Campbell

[edit] External links

• Bruce Medal page
• Awarding of Bruce Medal: PASP 27 (1915) 153
• Awarding of RAS gold medal: MNRAS 66 (1906) 245

[edit] Obituaries

• ApJ 89 (1939) 143
• MNRAS 99 (1939) 317
• PASP 50 (1938) 204

Preceded by David Prescott Barrows

President of the University of California 1923–1930

Succeeded by Robert Gordon Sproul