Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, peers into an instrument.(Image credit: Lowell Observatory) Clyde William Tombaugh was born near Streator, Ill., on Feb. 4, 1906. His family purchased a farm near Burdett, Kan., while he was still young, where a hailstorm ruined his family's crops and...
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Another commonly asked question. This one is a little simpler to answer. In 1930, an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto (at the time it was known as a planet). At this time astronomers had noticed that there seemed to be issues with the orbits of the planets Uranu...
他是加州大学伯克利分校的最大捐助者之一,于 2012 年建立了Simons计算理论研究所,他是伯克利数学科学研究所的最大捐助者,他是该研究所的董事会成员。 2016 年,Clyde Tombaugh于 1936 年发现的小行星 6618 Jimsimons 被国际天文学联合会以Simons的名字命名,以纪念他对数学和慈善事业的贡献。Gregory Zuckerman,于1966年...
icy day in Washington, D.C., when I had the privilege to speak with Venetia Burney Phair, the retired English schoolteacher, who as an 11-year old in 1930, suggested the name for the distant planetary body discovered by 24-year old Clyde Tombaugh at Flagstaff, Arizona's Lowell ...