Awards & Winners

Edward Charles Pickering

Date of Birth 19-July-1846
Place of Birth Boston
(Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Area code 617, Area code 857)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Astronomer, Physicist
Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist as well as the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations.

Awards by Edward Charles Pickering

Check all the awards nominated and won by Edward Charles Pickering.

1891


Rumford Prize
(For his work on the photometry of the stars and upon stellar spectra.)

1888


Henry Draper Medal
(For his work in stellar photometry, stellar photography, and stellar spectrum photography.)