Francis Preserved Leavenworth
Francis Preserved Leavenworth (born September 3, 1858 in Mount Vernon, Indiana; died November 12, 1928; a.k.a. Frank Leavenworth) was an American astronomer. He discovered many New General Catalogue objects together with Frank Muller and Ormond Stone. They used a telescope with a 66-cm aperture at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
External links
- Article by William O. Beal about Leavenworth in "Popular Astronomy", Vol. 37, S. 117 ADS
- Obituary in "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", Vol. 89, S. 312 ADS
- Photo and list of discovered objects
- Publications by F. P. Leavenworth in the Astrophysics Data System
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