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	Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951)
		Aitken's 1910 review of contemporary research on Mars influenced future attitudes toward the possibility of advanced life on that planet (see Mars, life).
		Most significantly, he was the first to publicly endorse both the work of William Campbell (which showed there was little or no water vapor in the Martian atmosphere) and Simon Newcomb (which concluded that the canals were an optical illusion).
		If it rotates on its axis once in about 24 hours, we have reason to believe that it is habitable, for the conditions we named as essential to life – air, water in its liquid form and a moderate temperature – are undoubtedly realized.
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	Robert Grant Aitken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Grant Aitken (December 31, 1864 – October 29, 1951) was an American astronomer.
		Aitken also measured positions and computed orbits for comets and natural satellites of planets.
		Aitken was partly deaf and used a hearing aid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Grant_Aitken (168 words)

	Aitken, Robert
		Aitken served 1960-4 as second flute of the CBC Symphony Orchestra and 1962-4 as principal flute of the Stratford Festival Orchestra.
		Aitken taught 1957-64 and 1965-8 at the RCMT and 1960-4 and 1965-75 at the University of Toronto.
		Aitken was invested in the Order of Canada in 1994, was a Chevalier de l'ordre des Artes et Lettres (1997), and was an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000030 (1100 words)

	Aitken Robert Grant - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951), American astronomer, a leading authority on binary stars.
		During the next six years, motions to submit new evidence and appeals for a new trial were frequently made and denied.
		Grant was a puzzling figure in American public life.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Aitken_Robert_Grant.html (90 words)

	Robert Baker Aitken at AllExperts
		Robert Baker Aitken (born 1917 in Philadelphia) is an American teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Harada-Yasutani (or Sanbo Kyodan) tradition, a blending of Soto and Rinzai schools.
		In 1959 Robert Aitken and his wife Anne Hopkins Aitken moved to Hawai'i to be near his young son Thomas Laune Aitken.
		Aitken was authorized to teach by KÃµun Yamada in 1974.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/robert_baker_aitken.htm (505 words)

	Timeline: From the September 21, 1935, issue, Science News Online, Sept. 24, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Robert Grant Aitken, veteran director of Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Calif., goes the credit for what may be the astronomical measurements that will help decide the long-continued controversy on the age of the universe, Sir James indicates.
		Aitken has just published the newest edition of his famous treatise on binary, or twin, stars which rotate about one another far out in space like balls on the ends of a dumbbell.
		Aitken's book, reports Sir James, can be used in calculations that are in good agreement with the so-called "long time" scale for the age of the universe, or 10,000 billion years.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20050924/timeline.asp (527 words)

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		Robert Grant Aitken was born on the 31 December 1864 in Jackson, California.
		Between 1895 and 1906 he was assistant astronomer at the Lick Observatory, promoted in 1906 to astronomer, 1923 to associate director and in 1930 director of the observatory.
		From 1897 until 1908 Aitken served as editor of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
	www.plicht.de /chris/files/a/aitkenrobertgrant.htm (162 words)

	The Bruce Medalists: Robert G. Aitken
		A native Californian, Robert Aitken was educated at Williams College in Massachusetts.
		Aitken made systematic surveys of binary stars, discovering thousands, measuring their positions visually, and calculating orbits for many.
		Jeffers, Hamilton M., “Robert Grant Aitken, 1864-1951,” PASP 64, 5-10 (1952).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/Aitken/index.html (284 words)

	JAMS Foundation
		Grants may be for the purpose of supporting innovations in teaching ADR or in stimulating interest and excellence through awards and recognitions.
		Grant funds shall not be used to pay travel expenses or fees of JAMS neutrals or staff.
		Grant seekers may review this document to determine whether or not their project and funding needs are consistent with the Foundation’s interests.
	www.jamsadr.com /j_found/j_foundation.asp (846 words)

	Robert Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Aitken, Robert Grant -- Encyclopædia Britannica - Aitken, Robert Grant American astronomer who specialized in the study of double stars, of which he discovered more than 3000.
		Robert Grant - Robert B. Grant became managing partner of the Orange County office of Deloitte and Touche in July 1995.
		Robert B. Grant - Robert B. Grant became managing partner of the Orange County office of...
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	PEERMUSIC CLASSICAL EUROPE: Komponisten: Robert Aitken
		As a flutist, composer, conductor and highly sought after teacher, Robert Aitken is one of the most diversified and respected musicians of our time.
		In 1964, a Canada Council Grant enabled Robert Aitken to study in Europe with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Severino Gazzeloni, Herbert Barwahser and André Jaunet and to spend time with the man he considers his principal teacher and mentor, Marcel Moyse.
		Robert Aitken says that with his music he would like to take the listeners to places they have never been before.
	www.peermusic-classical.de /aitken2.htm (610 words)

	Aitken Coat of Arms
		The surname Aitken was first used in the Scottish/English Borderlands by an ancient Scottish people called the Strathclyde-Britons.
		However, the Picts were granted permission to settle in the northeastern part of Scotland on the condition that each Pictish king marry an Irish princess, thus providing the Irish with a colony whose rulers were of royal Irish blood.
		The line of Stewart monarchs of Scotland began in 1371, descending from the union of Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce and Walter, the 6th High Steward of Scotland.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/aitken-coat-arms.htm (1018 words)

	Jane Aitken Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Jane Aitken, a longtime citizen, bookbinder, and printer of Philadelphia, was the eldest daughter of Robert and Janet (Skeoch).
		Possibly Aitken's debt was a result of a combination of a series of poor investments coupled with the bible endeavor.
		It is difficult to determine exactly when and why Aitken finally resigned from printing and bookbinding but it appears to have been shortly after 1815 for health-related reasons given that her obituary reported that she died after a "long and painful illness."
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/a/aitken.htm (2249 words)

	Robert Aitken
		Canadian composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a conductor and flautist.
		Aitken studied flute privately with Nicolas Fiore in Toronto from 1955-59 and studied counterpoint with Barbara Pentland at the University of British Columbia in 1958-59.
		His honors as a flautist include prizes in the Paris flute competition (1971) and the new music flute competition in Royan (1972) and an invitation from Pierre Boulez to present a solo recital at IRCAM (1977, one of only twelve instrumentalists chosen), as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association (2003).
	composers21.com /compdocs/aitkenr.htm (587 words)

	granted - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, national historic site authorized in 1989.
		decided, settled, arranged, approved, fixed, granted, established, contracted
		Nineteenth Amendment: map of states that granted women voting rights before the 19th amendment
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	National Park Service: Astronomy and Astrophysics (Lick Observatory Building)
		Robert Grant Aitken followed in Burnham's tracks by discovering, catologing, and studying thousands of double stars.
		William W. Campbell organized many solar eclipse expeditions that led to Robert J. Trumpler's confirmation of the general theory of relativity.
		Trumpler's studies of stars in clusters led to the discovery that dark matter absorbs light in space, one of the most important discoveries of twentieth-century astronomy.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4b.htm (1842 words)

	Robert Grant Aitken - DeafWiki
		Robert Grant Aitken was an oral deaf American who became a prominent astronomer.
		He attended public schools, then entered Williams College intending to become a minister, but fascination with the sciences caused him to change his mind.
		Graduating college in 1887, Aitken became a teacher at Livermore College; in 1891, he was a professor of mathematics at University of the Pacific, then he spent 40 years with the Lick Observatory of the University of California at Santa Cruz, the last 5 years as director, before retirement in 1935.
	deafwiki.org /index.php?title=Robert_Grant_Aitken&printable=yes (145 words)

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		Additional Information: KXXQ notes that the reallotment will not deprive Grants of its sole local aural transmission service and it will provide Milan with its second local aural transmission service and its first competitive aural service, thus fulfilling priority four of the Commission’s FM allotment priorities. No urbanized areas are involved.
		Accordingly, any construction permit that is granted prior to the receipt of formal concurrence of the Canadian Government will include the following condition: “Operation with the facilities specified herein is subject to modification, suspension, or termination without right to hearing if specifically objected to by Industry Canada.
		Accordingly, consistent with precedent, we will condition the grant of an authorization to operate Station WAQZ(FM) on Channel 247A at Fort Thomas upon the activation of Station WYGY(FM), Channel 243B at Lebanon and the grant of program test authority.
	www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/2001/da012681.doc (1375 words)

	"A" Famous People
		Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951) Astronomer, born in Jackson, California, USA.
		Aitken, Sir (John William) Max(well) (1910-85) Newspaper publisher, born in Montreal, Quebec, SE Canada...
		Anker, Robert (1946-) Poet and novelist, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Afam.html (12967 words)

	December 31 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Aitken made systematic surveys of binary stars, measuring their positions visually.
		By 1948, Harger and other IU faculty began one-week courses on breath alcohol testing sponsored by the National Safety Council's Committee on Tests for Intoxication.
		Robert F. Borkenstein, an instructor on those courses later invented the Breathalyzer (1954), a more practical, highly portable instrument for testing breath alcohol.
	www.todayinsci.com /12/12_31.htm (2383 words)

	Robert Aitken
		Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos.
		AITKEN, Robert, publisher, born in Scotland in 1734; died in Philadelphia in July 1802.
		He settled in Philadelphia in 1769, and published the "Pennsylvania Magazine, or American Monthly Museum," from January 1775, till June 1776, having Hopkinson and Witherspoon for contributors, and was imprisoned in 1777 for his attachment to the cause of independence.
	www.famousamericans.net /robertaitken (292 words)

	CONCERTO FOR FLUTE AND CHAMBER ORHCESTRA
		Commissioned by ConAccord Canada for Robert Aitken with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council.
		Commissioned by Conaccord Canada for flutist Robert Aitken, the Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra is a palimpsest of—and a musical commentary on—the Concerto for Flute and strings in G minor by J. Bach.
		It is a tribute to the artistry of Robert Aitken, as my concerto is a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach and the unique place he holds in music history and in the history of human endeavor in general.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~chatzis/Concerto.htm (1023 words)

	HAS - Glossary
		Aitken (1864-1951) specialized in the study of double stars, discovering more than 3,000 of them.
		After serving as professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, Aitken joined the staff of the Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California, from which he retired in 1935.
		He is also credited with being the first explorer to make a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage and one of the first to fly across the Arctic.
	aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov /HAS/cirr/glossary.cfm (10672 words)

	Aitken Portal
		Roshi Robert Aitken (Bob Aitken to some) is a student, scholar, and teacher of in Hawaii Zen having written a Book - many Zen books, writing Zen books and zen teaching zen teaching and doing research.
		Various misspellings of his name are: Robert Atken, Robert Aitkin, Robert Atkins, Robert Eitken, Robert Atkin, Robert Aken, Robert Akin, robert Aikins, Robert Atkens, He was married to Mary Laune (Maria) and had a son Tom Aitken (Thomas) and then married Anne Aitken, aka Anne Hopkins Aitken, Anne Aurndel Aitken, listed in famous women.
		The founded the diamond sangha (sanga) in hawaii and later he moved to the big island, to kalapana, kaimu near hilo.
	homepage.mac.com /haoleboy (236 words)

	Aitken Robert Grant - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Henri, Robert (1865-1929), American painter, art educator, and mentor of the group of painters known as The Eight.
		Lee, Robert E(dward) (1807-1870), brilliant Confederate general, whose military genius was probably the greatest single factor in keeping the...
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		1899 Papers, 1861-1899 Biographical Robert Blake Cruice, Philadelphia surgeon, was born on 29 September 1838.
		Series 1 contains a biographical sketch on the life of Robert Blake Cruice; the author of this undated manuscript is unknown.
		Provenance The papers of Robert Blake Cruice were donated to the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia as part of a larger gift of Cruice family material from the estate of John M. Cruice in February 1956.
	www.collphyphil.org /FIND_AID/hist/histrbc1.htm (971 words)

	F.A.Q. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Mr Lorimer painted the picture in 1891, but the idea was conceived some time before, and some pencil sketches of the figures reveal the care he took in preparing his subject.
		It was exhibited the same year in the Royal Academy, London, and in 1893 Aitken and Dott published a photogravure of it, by which time the picture became well known to a wide public.
		Last of the six elders, on Bennet's left, is Robert Grant, a general labourer, but renowned for his skill with the scythe.
	www.freechurch.org /oldrec/oldrecax.htm (1322 words)

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		http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N094789 Aitken, R.G. The Mirror of the Crossley Reflector Surfaced with Aluminum.
		Enprynted at London : In [the] fletestrete at the sygne of the rose garland by Robert Coplande, 1547.
		At London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Robert Allott, at the signe of the Grey-hound in Paules Church-yard, 1626 (2nd ed.) (Surveying; carpenters rule, cross-staff.) Digges, Leonard and Thomas.
	www.europa.com /~telscope/jrnlbibl.doc (13626 words)

	Gerard Kuiper \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		He befriended fellow students Bart Bok and Pieter Oosterhoff and was taught by Ejnar Hertzsprung, Antonie Pannekoek, Willem de Sitter, Jan Woltjer, Jan Oort and the physicist Paul Ehrenfest.
		Kuiper finished his doctoral thesis on binary stars with Hertzsprung in 1933, after which he immediately traveled to California to become a fellow under Robert Grant Aitken at the Lick Observatory.
		In 1935 he left to work at the Harvard College Observatory where he met Sarah Parker Fuller, whom he married on June 20, 1936.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Gerard_Kuiper (224 words)

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