John Martin Schaeberle
John Martin Schaeberle (January 10, 1853 – September 17, 1924) was a Kingdom of Württemberg-born American astronomer.
Biography
He was born Johann Martin Schäberle in Kingdom of Württemberg, but in 1854 [1] immigrated as an infant to the United States. Most sources refer to him as John M. Schaeberle, but his family and friends called him Martin.
He attended
apprentice in a machine shop. During his apprenticeship, he became interested in astronomy, and decided to finish high school.[1] He then became a student of James Craig Watson at the University of Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1876 as a civil engineer, but devoted himself to astronomy. He taught astronomy at the University of Michigan from 1876 to 1888.[2] He maintained his own private observatory and discovered three comets. In 1888 he became one of the inaugural astronomers at Lick Observatory
.
He had charge of the expedition to witness the
corona during total solar eclipses. He also discovered Procyon B, the faint companion star of Procyon
, in 1896.
He resigned from Lick Observatory when
Ann Arbor.[1] He never held another astronomical post. He was also an athlete and musician.[1] He was a frequent contributor to astronomical journals.[2]
Schaeberle died in Ann Arbor. There are craters named after him on both the Moon and on Mars.
Comets discovered
Notes
- ^ a b c d Donald H. Menzel (1935). "Schaeberle, John Martin". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ a b c Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ ISBN 0521585058.
External links
- Portraits of John Martin Schaeberle from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- https://web.archive.org/web/20051216081237/http://www.detroitobservatory.umich.edu/JAHH2003/DetroitObservatoryArticle.pdf
- Scientific American, "Schaeberle's Comet", 27-Aug-1881, pp. 129
Obituaries
- "John Martin Schaeberle, 1853-1924", by W. J. Hussey, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (December 1924) p.309
- Obituary in '"The Observatory (November 1924), p. 348 (one paragraph)
John Martin Schaeberle in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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