| 词条 | Charles Hugh Smiley |
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Born in Camden, Missouri, he attended UCLA and UC Berkeley, where he earned a mathematics degree.[1] He received an MA in mathematics from Berkeley (1925) and a PhD from the same university (1927).[1] He taught mathematics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (1927-9) and worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory as a Guggenheim Fellow (1929–30).[1][3] He worked as a professor of mathematics at Brown University from 1930 onwards.[1] He was director of Ladd Observatory and served as chairman of the Department of Astronomy from 1938 until his retirement.[1] Smiley led expeditions to South America, Canada, Asia, and the US to study solar eclipses and observed the solar eclipse of July 20, 1963 from a U.S. Air Force F-104D Starfighter supersonic aircraft that was "racing the moon's shadow" at {{convert|1,300|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} extending the duration of totality.[4] He also conducted several expeditions between 1947 and 1952 to study “atmospheric refraction at low angular altitudes.” [1] He also studied the Mayan calendar, and “was able to date the Mayan Codices of Dresden, Paris, and Madrid from astronomical dates which they contained.”[1] When 1570 Brunonia was discovered on October 9, 1948 by Sylvain Julien Victor Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle, Belgium, Arend wrote to Smiley:
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=S0220|title= Charles H. Smiley|year=1993|author=Martha Mitchell|publisher=Brown University|accessdate=April 29, 2012}} 2. ^“D.H. Kelley, “Charles Hugh Smiley, 1903-1977,” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 72, p.46. 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/13696-charles-hugh-smiley|title=Charles Hugh Smiley|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|accessdate=April 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009111810/http://www.gf.org/fellows/13696-charles-hugh-smiley#|archive-date=2012-10-09|dead-url=yes|df=}} 4. ^{{cite journal |last=Smiley |first=Charles H. |date=February 1964 |title=Racing the Moon's Shadow on July 20, 1963 |journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=10–12 |bibcode=1964JRASC..58...10S |quote=The United States Air Force provided an F-104D, a Starfighter made by Lockheed, and Major William A. Cato piloted the plane from Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico to Uplands Airport, Ottawa. }} 5. ^{{cite encyclopedia|last=Mitchell|first=Martha|year=1993|title=Brown University Glacier|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Brunoniana|publisher=Brown University Library|location=Providence, RI|asin=B0006P9F3C |url=http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0540|accessdate=2010-02-09}} External links
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