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Schlesinger<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/649/000106331/" class=proflink>11-May</a>-<a href="/lists/870/000105555/" class=proflink>1871</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/631/000069424/" class=proflink>New York City</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/078/000106757/" class=proflink>10-Jul</a>-<a href="/lists/453/000106135/" class=proflink>1943</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> Lynn, CT<br><b>Cause of death:</b> unspecified<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/628/000096340/" class=proflink>Astronomer</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Stellar parallaxes<p><b>Military service:</b> US Army Signal Corps (1918-19)<p>Astronomer Frank Schlesinger began his career under <a href="/people/672/000036564/">George Ellery Hale</a> at Yerkes Observatory, and later pioneered wide-angle photographic techniques for plotting stellar parallaxes, demonstrating that these methods are much more precise than visual-based calculations. His photographic parallax measurement techniques are still used by present-day astronomers.<p><b>Father:</b> William Joseph Schlesinger (b. 1836, d. 1880)<br><b>Mother:</b> Mary Wagner Schlesinger (b. 1832, m. 1857, d. 1892, seven children)<br><b>Wife:</b> Eva Hirsch Schlesinger (m. 1900, one son)<br><b>Son:</b> Frank Wagner Schlesinger (b. 1901)<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/691/000068487/">BS, City College of New York (1890)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">MA Astronomy, Columbia University (1897)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">PhD Astronomy, Columbia University (1899)</a><br> Scholar: Astronomer, International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, CA (1899-1903)<br> Scholar: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago (1898, 1903-05)</a><br> Administrator: <a href="/edu/573/000068369/">Director of Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh (1905-20)</a><br> Administrator: <a href="/edu/480/000068276/">Director of Yale University Observatory, Yale University (1920-41)</a><br><p> <a href="/honors/854/000117503/">Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal</a> 1927<br> <a href="/honors/276/000099976/">Bruce Medal</a> 1927<br> <a href="/org/640/000052484/">American Philosophical Society</a> <br> <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> <br> <a href="/org/766/000051613/">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a> <br> <a href="/org/866/000117515/">American Astronomical Society</a> President (1919-22)<br> <a href="/org/866/000117515/">American Astronomical Society</a> Vice President (1912-19)<br> <u>Astronomical Society of the Pacific</u> <br> <a href="/org/084/000099784/">French Academy of Sciences</a> Foreign Member<br> <a href="/org/374/000104062/">International Astronomical Union</a> President (1932-35)<br> <a href="/org/374/000104062/">International Astronomical Union</a> Vice President (1925-32)<br> <a href="/org/692/000054530/">National Academy of Sciences</a> 1916<br> <a href="/org/651/000127270/">Washington Academy of Sciences</a> <br> <u>New York City Street Dept.</u> Surveyor (1892-96)<br> <u>Title Guarantee & Trust Co.</u> Surveyor (1890-92)<br> <a href="/lists/660/000096372/">Lunar Crater</a> Schlesinger<br> <a href="/lists/919/000095634/">Asteroid Namesake</a> 1770 Schlesinger<br> <a href="/lists/644/000044512/">German Ancestry</a> <br> <p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Astronomy</i> (<tt>1923</tt>)<br><i>General Catalogue of Paralaxes, Second Edition</i> (<tt>1935</tt>)<br><i>Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars</i> (<tt>1940</tt>)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=172889"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=172889">Frank Schlesinger</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=172889" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>