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Comstock, George Cary

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Born Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 12 February 1855

Died Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 11 May 1934

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Comstock, George Cary. Reproduced by permission of the Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz

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  • Anon. (1904). “Comstock, George Cary.” In National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 12, pp. 454–455. New York: James T. White and Co.

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  • Stebbins, Joel (1939). “Biographical Memoir of George Cary Comstock.” Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences 20: 161–182.

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  • Townley, Sidney D. (1934). “George Cary Comstock.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 46: 171–176.

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  1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Patricia S. Whitesell

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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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Whitesell, P.S. (2014). Comstock, George Cary. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_297

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