George Phillips Bond
George Phillips Bond | |
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| Born | May 20, 1825 Cambridge, MA, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA, 1845) (MS, 1853)[1] |
| Known for | astrophotography |
| Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1865) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronomy |
| Institutions | Harvard College Observatory |
George Phillips Bond (May 20, 1825 – February 17, 1865) was an American astronomer. He was the son of William Cranch Bond. Some sources give his year of birth as 1826.
His early interest was in
Edward Singleton Holden, first director of Lick Observatory
.
Bond took the first photograph of a
White Mountains of New Hampshire
.
He died of tuberculosis.
Honors
- Won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1865.
- Bondcliffamong the White Mountains are all named after him.
- The crater G. Bond on the Moon is named after him, as is the crater Bond on Mars.[2]
- The Bond albedo, which is important for describing a planetary body's energy balance, is also named for him.
- A region on Hyperion is called the "Bond-Lassell Dorsum"
- Asteroid (767) Bondia is jointly named after him and his father.
- The Bond Gap within Saturn's C Ring is jointly named after him and his father.
References
- Soylent Communications. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ISBN 978-3642297182.
External links
- http://messier.seds.org/xtra/Bios/gpbond.html (note incorrect dates of birth and death)
- MNRAS 9 (1848) 1: Discovery of a new satellite of Saturn
- Presentation of RAS gold medal
- Brief obituary notice
- The Bonds: Pioneers of American Astronomy
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