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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

Born Ecclefechan, (Dumfries and Galloway), Scotland, 17 December 1837

Died Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, 28 February 1903

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Harkness, William. Courtesy of United States Naval Observatory

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  • Anon. (1903). “William Harkness.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 15: 172–177.

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  1. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA

    Alan W. Hirshfeld

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Hirshfeld, A.W. (2014). Harkness, William. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_580

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