Arthur Scott King

Arthur Scott King
King at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910
Born	18 January 1876 Jerseyville, Illinois
Died	17 April 1957
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, astrophysics
Institutions	Mount Wilson Observatory

Arthur Scott King (January 18, 1876 – April 17, 1957) was an American

He was born in Jerseyville, Illinois, the son of Robert Andrew and Miriam Munson King. In 1883 the family moved to Santa Rosa, California in an attempt to alleviate their son Arthur's chronic asthma. The asthma cleared up, and in 1890 they moved again to Fresno.

In 1895 Arthur graduated from

After winning a Whiting Fellowship, he spent two years in Germany, studying at Bonn and Berlin and travelling in Europe. His academic interests were focused on spectroscopy, and at the time these institutions were leaders in the field.

In 1905 he returned to Berkeley and became an instructor. The following year he married Louise Burnett, and the couple had two sons. The same year he published a paper describing the use of an electric furnace for use in spectroscopy.^[1]

He was offered a position at

Between 1901 and his retirement he published well over 200 papers in scientific journals. He served as president of the American Meteorical Society for a period, and also as president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1941. In 1943 he retired, but he became involved in war research at Caltech. There he studied the ballistics of torpedoes launched from aircraft. Finally in 1957, with his health failing, he died in Pasadena, California.

The crater

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The following was used extensively as a reference:

• Arthur S. King by Robert B. King.