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	AllRefer.com - Edward Charles Pickering (Astronomy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Edward Charles Pickering 1846–1919, American astronomer and physicist, b.
		He was professor of physics (1868–77) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was the first in the United States to initiate general instruction in physics in a laboratory equipped with instruments and apparatus.
		Pickering devised several instruments, including the meridian photometer, used in the measurements.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PickrngE.html (232 words)

	Edward Charles Pickering Biography / Biography of Edward Charles Pickering Biography
		The American astronomer Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919) was a pioneer in the fields of stellar spectroscopy and photometry.
		Edward Pickering was born on July 19, 1846, in Boston, Mass., of a distinguished New England family.
		Pickering's second work, begun in 1885, was the compilation of a "photographic library," as he called it, giving a complete photographic chart of the stellar universe down to the eleventh magnitude on some 300,000 glass plates.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-edward-charles-pickering/index.html (514 words)

	Edward Charles Pickering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Charles Pickering (July 19, 1846 – February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering.
		Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars.
		These women, who came to be known as "Pickering's Harem" by the scientific community, made several important discoveries at HCO.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Charles_Pickering (177 words)

	Edward Montagu - This was your Life!
		Edward's early schooling was at the same grammar school in Huntingdon that Oliver Cromwell had gone to.
		Edward died at the battle of Solebay (Southwold Bay) in May 1672 - this was part of the 3rd Anglo-Dutch war.
		Edward, according to various sources, refused to jump into the sea and was last seen stood on the quarter-deck.
	www.bracewel.demon.co.uk /monties/montylif.htm (802 words)

	Edward Charles Pickering -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Under the directorship of Edward Charles Pickering from 1877 to 1919, the observatory became the world's major producer of stellar spectra and...
		One of the pioneers in the early history of long-distance airplane flight was the Australian aviator Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith.
		Edward Davenport was considered one of the most skilled and popular American actors of the mid-19th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059923?tocId=9059923 (812 words)

	Women in Astronomy IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ANTONIA MAURY: Antonia was born in 1866 and was the niece of Henry Draper who first photographed stellar spectra and she was the granddaughter of JW Draper, a pioneer in astronomical photography.
		Maury graduated from Vassar College in 1887 and, at the request of her father was employed by Edward Pickering at Harvard Observatory classifying the bright northern stars according to their spectra.
		Pickering had just established Mizar as the first spectroscopic binary--that's a binary that is detected by the Doppler shift in spectral lines.
	www.ottawa.rasc.ca /observers/2001/an0105pa.html (613 words)

	Edward Pickering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edward A. Pickering was in all likelihood the only artist to appear with the D'Oyly Carte organization in an adult production before being engaged for Carte's children's H.M.S. Pinafore at the Opera Comique and later on tour.
		Pickering claimed to have appeared at the Opera Comique in 1877 at the age of six.
		Edward Pickering as also a choirboy in his youth with the Moore and Burgess minstrels.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/whowaswho/P-Q/PickeringEdward.htm (401 words)

	Transatlantic Cable, Henry Alfred Pickering, Pickering Genealogy
		The elder Pickering became director of the cable laying at the Liverpool end in 1857, and the cable works were installed at the Birkenhead Docks, not far from the Pickering home.
		Pickering was honored in the spring of 1932 when Bishop R. Mize presented him with a silver copy of the official bishop's cross, engraved with his name.
		Pickering, 319 North Thirteenth street was only a small boy, but his recollections of that historical event are vivid since his father was instrumental in financing the Hugh project.
	www.fastq.com /~cstover/trans.html (1206 words)

	National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
		Pickering died in his sleep at home in London, said News International, the umbrella company for Rupert Murdoch's London newspapers.
		Pickering, who was knighted in 1977, served as editor of the Daily Express from 1957 to 1962 at the height of post-war circulation battles.
		Edward Davies ``Pick' Pickering was born on May 4, 1912, in Middlesbrough, England, and began work as a reporter there.
	www.arrangeonline.com /Obituary/Obituary.asp?obituaryid=67866518 (322 words)

	Pickering Genealogy
		Pickering born October 15, 1854 in Greene County, TN; died January 28, 1939 at Troy, Pontotoc County, Mississippi; married September 9, 1874 in Pontotoc County, MS to Minerva Hassletine Griffin was was born March 29, 1856 and died January 28, 1945.
		Pickering born July 6, 1879; died October 8, 1966; married on December 21, 1898 to Oma Calloway "Rube" Rackley who was born December 20, 1875 and died May18, 1960.
		Pickering born November 22, 1882; died April 7, 1949; married 1905; to Cora Cobb Lambert who was born December 19, 1888 the daughter of John T. Lambert and Sarah Caroline Foster (who was the daughter of Edwin Foster).
	personalpages.tds.net /~mecaviness/pickring.htm (3680 words)

	Pickering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States
		William Pickering, first Protector appointed by the British administration of colonial Singapore to head the Chinese Protectorate.
		William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004), former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pickering (137 words)

	The Bruce Medalists: Edward Pickering
		Edward C. Pickering, a Harvard graduate, taught physics for ten years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he built the first instructional physics laboratory in the United States.
		Pickering encouraged amateur astronomers and was a founder of the American Association of Variable Star Observers.
		Plotkin, Howard, “Edward Charles Pickering,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 21, 47≠58 (1990).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/Pickering/Pickering.html (324 words)

	Pickering's Harem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This picture which includes Edward Charles Pickering, the Director of HCO (1877-1919), was taken on 13 May 1913 in front of Building C, which faces north.
		Pickering had his offices on the west end across the central hallway.
		In 1920 she received the first AAVSO nova medal; by 1927, she had seven bars on it for her discoveries of novae on photographs of the Milky Way.
	cfa-www.harvard.edu /~jshaw/pick.html (514 words)

	Edward Charles Pickering -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edward Charles Pickering (July 19 1846 – February 3 1919) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A physicist who studies astronomy) astronomer and (A scientist trained in physics) physicist, brother of (Click link for more info and facts about William Henry Pickering) William Henry Pickering.
		Along with (Click link for more info and facts about Carl Vogel) Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first (Click link for more info and facts about spectroscopic binary) spectroscopic binary stars.
		(Click link for more info and facts about Pickering crater) Pickering crater on the (Any natural satellite of a planet) Moon is jointly named after him and his brother (Click link for more info and facts about William Henry Pickering) William Henry Pickering.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_charles_pickering.htm (297 words)

	Tyndale Society \| Index
		Edward Davies Pickering (‘Pick’ of the Times, as Fleet Street knows him) was born on the fourth of May in 1912 in what was then the North Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Middlesbrough High School before embarking on his career in journalism.
		Yet he has survived with his intellect intact, and with his sense of humour.” Robert Edwards in the same issue says “Not once did I witness Pick feed a single member of his staff to the raging lion (Lord Beaverbrook).
		Indeed, this little publication is itself the latest in a long line of printed papers that owe their character to his restless passion and ferric zeal.
	www.tyndale.org /TSJ/2/pickering.html (616 words)

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		A committee consisting of Hale, Edward C. Pickering and George E. Comstock was formed to solicit opinions and forward recommendations on the Naval Observatory.
		Pickering, in presidential address, suggested using small grants not exceeding $1000 to fund routine work at small and large professional observatories or at amateur observatories.
		As Pickering was retiring as President of the AAAS as well, Comstock presided over some of this meeting when Pickering was away.
	www.aas.org /~had/meeting.html (3871 words)

	EDWARD CHARLES PICKERING - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD CHARLES PICKERING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		EDWARD CHARLES PICKERING - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD CHARLES PICKERING
		For his treason, trial and death, consult Montgaillards Mmoires concernant Ia trahison de Pichegru (1804); Fauche-Borels Memoires; Savary, 3Imoires sur la mart de Pichegru (Paris, 1825); and G. Pierret, Pichegru, son prods et sa mon (1826).
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	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PI/PICKERING_EDWARD_CHARLES.htm (533 words)

	SPACE.com -- The Women of SETI
		That was the attitude of Edward Pickering, Director of the Harvard College Observatory in 1880, as he confronted the necessity of analyzing the swelling stack of glass plates being churned out by his research staff.
		It was a thankless, tedious, and costly proposition; a dismaying challenge for the observatory director.
		During the next four decades, Pickerings underpaid computers (as many of the women were called) compiled the ground-breaking Henry Draper Catalog, which immediately became a bible for the new field of astrophysics.
	www.space.com /searchforlife/shostak_women_030626.html (876 words)

	AAVSO: Variable Star of the Month, R Cyg
		In the early 1900s, Edward Pickering of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) was devoting much of his time to the then neglected field of variable star astronomy.
		For years, Pickering monitored the brightness of variables with the assistance of a small group of volunteers.
		The first observation of R Cyg archived in the AAVSO International Database is that of Helen Swartz, which she made on what she reported to be a clear night with a 3-inch telescope from her home in Norwalk, Connecticut.
	www.aavso.org /vstar/vsots/1101.shtml (1521 words)

	Edward Charles Pickering
		Pickering, Edward Charles (1846-1919) (The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography)
		Pickering, Edward Charles (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
		Senate committee approves Pickering nomination on party-line vote.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0838949.html (246 words)

	AAS MEETINGS: TO DECEMBER 1920 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the session on Friday morning, it was resolved by unanimous vote that the annual conferences should be continued, either in their existing form or under the auspices of a permanent society, and a Committee (The Society Committee) was formed to accomplish this latter objective.
		In welcoming the Society, President E.C. Pickering explained that the location of the meeting was chosen so the members could be together between the sessions as well as at them, under circumstances which would enable them to become better acquainted and, at the same time, afford opportunity for the discussion of matters of mutual interest.
		President Pickering, in his opening remarks, noted that this was the first Meeting of the Society (AASA) outside the U.S. the Canadian Deputy Minister of the Interior W.W. Cory, C.M.G., welcomed the Society.
	www.aas.org /~had/mtg01c.html (6228 words)

	The Ancestry of Northeastern Pennsylvania
		of Edward & Abigail; Mendon,V.R.'s; and Else for the marriage to Jotham Pickering; Mendon,V.R.'S; Claude Barlow's Pickering Gen., states; " Else is indeed Alse, dau.
		Claude Barlow and Leona (Pickering) Thomas have some writings on the unpublished genealogy, that I have.
		I say Jotham is the son of Jonathan Pickering, and the Rev. record is for Jonathan's son Jotham and the Annals of Mendon, Rev. War records maybe for Jonathan Sr.
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	Professor Howard Plotkin
		"Edward C. Pickering, the Henry Draper Memorial, and the Beginnings of Astrophysics in America," Annals of Science, vol.
		"Edward P. Henderson and the Development of Meteoritics at the Smithsonian Institution, 1929-1965," Meteoritical Society, Washington, D.C., September, 1995.
		"Edward P. Henderson and the Development of Meteoritics at the Smithsonian Institution, 1929-1965," Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May, 1995.
	publish.uwo.ca /~hplotkin (983 words)

	Pickering, Corts & Summerson, Inc.: About Us: Our History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Registered surveyors Edward Pickering III and Howard T. Corts expanded the firm's services in 1953 by hiring professional engineer Gerald J. Summerson, forming the partnership known as Pickering, Corts & Summerson.
		In 1962, Pickering, Corts & Summerson was chartered as a corporation with Edward Pickering III as the company's first President, Howard T. Corts as Vice President, and Gerald J. Summerson as Secretary/Treasurer.
		In 1966, Pickering, Corts & Summerson, Inc. moved to Newtown Township, PA, following an opportunity for growth resulting from the design and construction of Interstate 95.
	www.pcs-inc.biz /AboutUsHistory.asp?LinkDate=6/25/2005 (462 words)

	The Ancestry of Northeastern Pennsylvania
		Joseph died a few short years later in 1724 and HANNAH married second EDWARD Pickering and removed to Mendon,Ma.
		40) The inscription reads: In Memory of HANNAH Wife of EDWARD Pickering She died October 19th 1764 in ye 62nd year of age The stone is made of slate and is splitting and really weather beaten.
		I had tried to believe that HANNAH was the Bancroft girl who had married Joseph Gowing and married second EDWARD PICKERING.
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	Pickering home Page
		It is said he went by the name of "Eugene or "Gene" and Rose Ella Jones is pretty close to Rosella Jones.
		Rose and Charles Eugene's children born before 1900 were Freda [1895-1940] and Charles Leo [1897-1901] and Cecil Edward [1899-1901].
		I would say since the dates match there is no question that this is the family of Charles Eugene Pickering.
	www.amug.org /~cstover/CWdescendants.html (339 words)

	Pickering, J Edward, MD - Pickering J Edward MD - Medical Specialists - Wynnewood, PA, 19096 - Citysearch
		Pickering, J Edward, MD - Pickering J Edward MD - Medical Specialists - Wynnewood, PA, 19096 - Citysearch
		Pickering, J Edward, MD - Pickering J Edward MD 100 W Lancaster Ave Ste 316
		So do tailors and interior decorators, grandparents and preteens, city-dwellers and suburbanites..
	philadelphia.citysearch.com /profile/8945768 (165 words)

	Names Index Page
		PICKERING, Stella Tullene (16 AUG 1931-26 DEC 1934)
		TRAIL, Col. Charles Edward (28 JAN 1825-8 MAY 1909)
		TRAIL, Edward Northcroft (1 MAY 1798-2 OCT 1876)
	rnclark.home.netcom.com /names4.htm (893 words)

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