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	Harold Lester Johnson, April 17, 1921—April 2, 1980 \| By Gérard H. de Vaucouleurs \| Biographical Memoirs
		HAROLD JOHNSON, ONE OF the most productive and influential observational astrophysicists of this century, was born in Denver, Colorado, on April 17, 1921, the son of Averill C. and Marie (Sallach) Johnson.
		Johnson developed convenient forms to facilitate (in those precomputer days) the reduction of photoelectric observations, designed an ingenious analog-to-digital device to measure the star and sky deflections on chart records of the photo-current, and defined the rigorous procedures to be followed to obtain the highest precision in this type of observation.
		Johnson's years at Texas were very productive in the sense that he developed and used much new equipment at McDonald Observatory, but frustrating because he failed to receive from the university administration whole-hearted support for the kind of research and development he wanted to give to the department and, especially, the observatory.
	www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/biomems/hjohnson.html (3761 words)

	Harold Spencer Jones: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sir Harold Spencer Jones (March 29 1890 – November 3 1960) was a British (The people of Great Britain) astronomer (A physicist who studies astronomy).
		He determined the solar parallax (The apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object) from observations of 433 Eros (additional info and facts about 433 Eros) during its close approach in 1930–1931.
		He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (additional info and facts about Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society) in 1943 and the Bruce Medal (additional info and facts about Bruce Medal) in 1949.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Harold_Spencer_Jones.htm (243 words)

	Rev. Robert Johnson to leave CURW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Johnson said some of the most outspoken and influential Cornell faculty at the time were professed atheists.
		A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Johnson was ordained in 1954 in the United Methodist Church.
		Johnson will be a tough act to follow, according to Carolyn Taber, Anabel Taylor and Sage Chapel coordinator for 13 of Johnson's 19 years.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicles/5.24.01/Johnson.html (921 words)

	The Lowell Observer Online - Fall 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was Harold L. Johnson – brilliant, mercurial, and outspoken – who ushered in the modern era of electronic measurements of starlight at Lowell Observatory using the 21-inch telescope.
		Johnson was a pioneer in the development of the photoelectric photometer, an instrument that measures light through colored glass filters.
		Johnson built several photometers while at Lowell as well as the electronic amplifiers needed to record data as a squiggly trace on a moving strip of chart paper.
	www.lowell.edu /online_newsletter/fall_04/2713_nights.html (1323 words)

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		Astronomically it is generally thought of in terms of measuring the colours and brightness of stars but it also includes the investigation of surface brightness in extended objects such as the moon, the planets, galaxies and, for example, arcs of emission nebulosity in our own galaxy.
		Astronomers also use /absolute/ magnitudes, which is the true, intrinsic brightness of a star.
		Professional astronomers make use of several tens of different filter systems, some of which have been developed for very specific purposes such as the isolation of spectral lines of a single chemical element.
	www.physics.csbsju.edu /364/ccd_photometry.htm (18506 words)

	AAS Prizes and Awards
		The award includes a suitably engraved scroll, an invitation to deliver a lecture dealing with a broad astronomical field at a meeting designated by the Council, travel expenses to the meeting at which the Lecture is given, and ten free pages for publications of the Lecture in a Society journal.
		It is given to an astronomer who has not attained 36 years of age in the year designated for the award.
		It is given to an astronomer who has not attained 36 years of age in the year designated for the award or must be within eight years of receipt of their Ph.D. degree.
	www.aas.org /grants/awards.html (1100 words)

	astronomy, Miscellaneous, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
		In 1950 he sugested the exsistence of a sphere of incipent cometary material surrounding the solar system, which is now called the 'Oort cloud.' He proposed that comets detached themsleves from this 'Oort-cloud' and went into orbit around the sun.
		Pursuing the theoretical work of several astronomers on the evolution of stars, Sandage, with Harold L. Johnson, demonstrated in the early 1950s that the observed characteristics of the light and colour of the brightest stars in various globular clusters indicate that the clusters can be arranged in order according to their age.
		Kepler (1571-1630) : This Renaissance astronomer and astrologer is best known for his discovery that the orbits in which the Earth and the other planets of the solar system travel around the sun are elliptical, or oval, in shape.
	www.chuckiii.com /Reports/Miscellaneous/astronomy.shtml (1576 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: Science and Religion at a Crossroads: An Educational Perspective: by William L. Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Duke's Harold Koenig is a pioneer in the scientific study of religion's healing potential.
		An open, scholarly reexamination of the evidence for evolution, or lack thereof, is being conducted in a spirit of reconciliation (Meyer 1996).
		A.B. Johnson is a writer and researcher based in East Texas.
	www.quodlibet.net /johnson-science.shtml (8922 words)

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		Harold Johnson and colleagues used the 42 inch extensively for photoelectric photometry of star clusters.
		In 1956, the primary was refigured by Davidson Manufacturing of West Covina, who had been recommended by Don Hendrix, at a cost of $3600.
		Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 39 (1927) 143-154.
	www.europa.com /~telscope/lowell.txt (2036 words)

	Harold Wilson -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At the age of 8 Harold Wilson posed before the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street in London, England, for a snapshot taken by his father.
		When he moved into the residence 40 years later as Britain's 45th prime minister, Wilson was the youngest man to hold that post since 1894.
		James Harold Wilson was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, on March 11, 1916, the son of an industrial chemist.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277755 (80 words)

	Gérard de Vaucouleurs, April 25, 1918–October 7, 1995 \| By E. Margaret Burbidge \| Biographical Memoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		shows a group of astronomers and visitors at the Juvisy Observatory of Flammarion, including the well-known French astronomers Henri Mineur and André Couder and, second from the right-hand edge of the photo, a neatly dressed young man labeled tentatively from his short height and the widow's peak in his dark hair as G. de Vaucouleurs.
		This may have been the start of a friendship between Gérard and Harold Johnson, leading to Gérard's appointment at the University of Texas in 1960.
		If one had to select one of his hundreds of publications that is used by astronomers worldwide and that always brings to mind Gérard de Vaucouleurs and his contributions to the study of galaxies, one might choose the Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies.
	www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/biomems/gvaucouleurs.html (3095 words)

	ATM10 copy
		Now I don't know Harold Bloom, but I now know him to be a person of insight and above average perception.
		For in his prologue to the book he reveals that Dr. Samuel Johnson is his "ideal reader, for half a century." To that admission I can concur, but for a lesser period of time.
		Harold Bloom appropriates a phrase from Dr. Johnson and advises, when reading, to "clear your mind of cant" in order to let the author read to you.
	www.thirdlion.com /ATM10.html (3139 words)

	Breakup may have begun above California / Caltech astronomer noted 'debris shedding' as Columbia passed overhead
		Top NASA officials appealed for photographs or video evidence from amateur sky-watchers on the West Coast, after confirming they had received detailed written descriptions from a Caltech radio astronomer who said he saw what appeared to be "debris shedding from the orbiter" as it streaked over the eastern Sierra.
		The image is one of five snapped in sequence at 5:53 a.m., when the shuttle's sensors began to fail.
		NASA on Sunday appointed an independent team of investigators to find the cause of the Columbia disaster, and named to head it retired Adm. Harold Gehman Jr., who previously ran the government's probe of the suicide bombing in Yemen of the U.S. destroyer Cole, in which 17 Navy sailors died.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/03/MN33624.DTL (1172 words)

	NewsHour Online:In Memoriam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		August 9, 2005 -- In Memoriam: John Johnson A tribute to publishing tycoon John H. Johnson, founder of Ebony and Jet magazines, who died of congestive heart failure in Chicago at 87 years old.
		June 8, 2004 --Stealing Minds As America remembers Ronald Reagan this week, renewed attention is focused on Alzheimer's, the degenerative disease which made him forget the twilight years of his life.
		September 14, 1998 -- Remembering George Wallace Jim Lehrer and Kwame Holman are joined by Haynes Johnson to reflect on the life of controversial former governor of Alabama, George Wallace.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/remember.html (6276 words)

	CCD PHOTOMETRY
		For some people there will come a time when obtaining pictures of the sky or astronomical objects will no longer be sufficiently satisfying.
		The system of filters which we recommend that you use is that developed by Harold Johnson in the USA in the years 1940-1960 and Gerald Kron in the USA and Alan Cousins in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.
		Talk to fifty different professional astronomers and ask them what they consider to be scientifically useful projects that you can carry out at your home observatory and you will probably get fifty different answers.
	www.britastro.com /vss/ccd_photometry.htm (18527 words)

	NARA - Press - Press Release
		Steven J. Dick, astronomer and historian of science at the U.S. Naval Observatory, will discuss his new book, Life on Other Worlds: The Twentieth-Century Extra-Terrestrial Life Debate.
		Harold M. Evans, former president of Random House and now vice-chairman and editorial director of US News and World Report, will participate in a discussion on "The American Century: What Was It and Has It Ended?" Other panelists to be announced.
		General Johnson was a soldier’s officer, loved by his men and admired by his peers, who became President Lyndon Johnson’s Army Chief of Staff.
	www.archives.gov /press/press-releases/1998/nr98-144.html (907 words)

	"Flagstaff's Battle for Dark Skies" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1988-89, however, the astronomers and their allies waged open warfare on the side of darkness.
		In his reply, NOFS director Dr. Harold Ables called the trucking yard "one of the worst kinds of development for this area so close to the observatory, both in terms of the amount of light that will be needed and the hours of operation." Lockwood responded on behalf of Lowell Observatory.
		Astronomers do not, however, become astronomers because astronomy is a wealthy industry; they become astronomers because the universe touches their souls.
	members.aol.com /dsfportree/alphp.htm (4524 words)

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		That is what they are going to be doing with the low res blue lense and they are going to guide the fabrication strategy in con- junction with the Harold Johnson Company.
		And this will teach them in the process of running this study something about the sensitivities of the perfor- mance of the design.
		If we do, then that dictates that that machine has to be a Sun, something with an S bus in it.
	loen.ucolick.org /Deimos/Documents/MeetingNotes/1995/december.5 (12220 words)

	In Memorium: Antoinette de Vaucouleurs
		Antoinette also worked with her husband on the first quantitative spectral population analysis of a galaxy (the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud) from the strength of its absorption lines.
		During this work she first noticed in 1958 that the magnitudes of the central parts of several Seyfert galaxies differed perceptibly over a one-month interval — the first detection of variability in galactic nuclei — and her suspicions were verified ten years later when the variations were firmly established by others.
		In her 40 years of professional activity, she was the author or co-author of more than 60 research papers and galaxy catalogues which have been extensively used by astronomers.
	www.as.utexas.edu /lectures/adv.html (594 words)

	AAS-Interview with Ben Gascoigne
		Professor Gascoigne is a distinguished astronomer, well known internationally for his pioneering work on Cepheid variables and star clusters, and for his central role in the establishment of the Anglo-Australian Telescope.
		He is an Honorary Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Australia, and is justifiably proud to be the first Australian to be elected an Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		And Virginia Tinsley, a very prominent astronomer, told Robyn Williams during an interview that when the number of references which are made to papers published from each telescope – the impact factor – is added up, we are on top and have been for some time.
	www.science.org.au /scientists/bg.htm (13590 words)

	Welcome to New City School! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Harold goes for a walk in the moonlight with his purple crayon and created many fantastic adventures.
		Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
		Describes the life and work of Eratosthenes, the Greek geographer and astronomer who accurately measured the circumference of the Earth.
	www.newcityschool.org /innovations/classrooms/library/booklist.html (8725 words)

	Home Page von Peter Erni
		The German-American astronomer Walter Baade observed colours and location: Baade noticed a difference in colour between the stars in the disc and spheroid (i.e.
		He named these two stellar types Population I (resemble the brightest stars in the disk, which are predominantly blue) and Population II (resemble the brightest stars in GCs, which are predominantly red), respectively.
		An extremely distant and luminous astronomical objects that are much smaller than a galaxy and much more luminous.
	www.astro.uni-bonn.de /~perni/science/glossary.html (8791 words)

	My Sign - Pisces
		Their sympathy equips them for work in charities catering for the needy, as nurses looking after the sick and as veterinary surgeons caring for animals.
		As librarians or astronomers they can satisfy their mental wanderlust, and their fondness for "faraway places with strange-sounding names" may turn them into sailors or travellers.
		Many architects and lawyers are Pisceans, and when the creative abilities are combined with gifts of imitation and the ability to enter into the feelings of others, Pisceans find their fulfillment on the stage.
	www.alexandrumichaelr.bravehost.com /sign.html (1527 words)

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		* 600 l/mm grisms is at Harold Johnson being glued.
		The projection geometry of GMAP was changed to a vector method, giving improved accuracy and a consistent inverse location of mouse click location to celestial position.
		- Some more design was done for the Astronomer's GUI (interface to mask generation input data).
	www.ociw.edu /instrumentation/imacs/monthly/1002.txt (1240 words)

	The Religious Sublime
		Its causes, affects, ethics and aesthetics all began to be analysed in a tradition which stretches from John Dennis's The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry (1701) to the twentieth-century analyses of, among others, Harold Bloom and Jean-François Lyotard.
		This trembling joy (to paraphrase Burke) surrounding the imagination may be illustrated by the figure of the astronomer in Johnson's Rasselas (1759) who offers an example of the recognition of the alarming power of the synthetic imagination, of its capacity to contribute to 'knowledge' and its ability to inflict a feeling of 'calamity'.
		Yet despite this ambivalence towards the imagination which persists throughout the eighteenth century, the consequences that the sublime experience had for both aesthetics and for epistemology in the period remain considerable.
	www.sue-thomas.freeservers.com /graveyarddiss.html (5002 words)

	People in the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Naval Station Commanding Officer, Capt. Harold Flammang describes Johnson as "one of the finest master chief petty officers I have ever known."
		During his 24 years of naval service, Johnson has served aboard USS Hermit (LDS-34), USS Arthur W. Radford (DD-968), USS El Paso (LKA-117), USS Ainsworth (FF-1090), and USS Sylvania (AFS-2).
		At the beginning of October he is heading to Chile where he will work as an astronomer at an observatory.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/trident/6_32/local_news/10001-1.html (307 words)

	Name Index to Sky & Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As a great deal of biographical information is contained in the column "Astronomical Scrapbook," I give in the Appendix a list of all of those titles.
		"A spiral galaxy of astronomers," by Owen Gingerich [Mar. 1963 (25,3) pp.
		The Astronomical Scrapbook: Skywatchers, Pioneers, and Seekers in Astronomy, by Joseph Ashbrook (Sky Publishing, 1984).
	www.nd.edu /~kkrisciu/st.html (3396 words)

	S.P.A.C.E.---Search Project for Aspects of Close Encounters
		I also, as a little lad, remember news accounts of a three-year old TV signal from KDKA, a Pittsburgh station, which apparently bounced, or was returned, by a natural object or an alien probe, speculation ran, 18 light-months from Earth.
		This is at least the third encounter play to be performed in the city in the last three years.
		At Joseph Papp's Public Theatre last Autumn, a play called "SPACE" was performed, dwelling on the dynamic between a Dr. John Mack-type investigator and a SETI astronomer, modeled after Jill Tartar, (who was the model also for Carl Sagan's Dr. Ellie Arroway in "Contact") at the same university.
	community-2.webtv.net /HEgeln/SPACESearchProject/page16.html (5383 words)

	Broadway To Vegas March 28, 2004
		He established the Royal Academy and was a patron to writer Samuel Johnson and the astronomer William Herschel.
		He was the first king to study science as part of his education and even had his own astronomical observatory.
		The case for Christopher Pinchbeck's magnificent four-dialled astronomical clock and Matthew Boulton's decoration for the mantel clock by Thomas Wright, both in the exhibition, were partly designed by the King.
	www.broadwaytovegas.com /March28,2004.html (5287 words)

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