History of Astronomy : Persons : Persons (A)

Aitken, Robert Grant

Born: December 31, 1864, Jackson, California, USA
Died: October 29, 1951, Berkeley, California, USA

Astronomer

Internal documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

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• A Finding List of Obituary Notes of Astronomers (1900 - 1997)
• This site in general

External documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

• Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Short biography and references (C. Plicht)
• Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Very short biography (biography.com)
• Very short biography (Ciel Extr.)
• Address ... in awarding the Bruce Gold Medal to to Dr. Robert G. Aitken, by Benfield, Bernard (+ last page)
  PASP 38 (1926) 221, 2-14
• Address ... on the award of the Gold Medal of the Society awarded to Dr. Robert Grant Aitken for his work on double stars, by Knox-Shaw, H.
  MNRAS 92 (1932) 4, 354-360
• Robert Grant Aitken, by van den Bos, W. H.
  MNRAS 112 (1952) 3, 271-273 (Obituary Notices)
• Robert Grant Aitken, 1864-1951, by Jeffers, Hamilton M.
  PASP 64 (1952) 376, 5-10
• The Robert G. Aitken Memorial Fund
  PASP 65 (1953) 382, 64
• Britannica Online entries
• Works (LoC entries)
• Works (ADS entries)
• References (LoC entries)
• References (ADS entries)

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• Biographical Index to Sky and Telescope by Kevin Krisciunas (Or see here.)
• World Biographical Index

Archival sources

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• The International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences
• Finding Aid to the Records of the American Astronomical Society
• Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory

Namings

• Crater Aitken (lunar feature)

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• Planetary Nomenclature Alphabetic Index

Further links

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Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 9 June 2000. Latest update: 29 Mar 2001
URL: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_aitken.html