“The chance of finding a satellite appeared to be very slight, so that I might have abandoned the search had it not been for the encouragement of my wife.”
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Asaph Hall
Asaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars.
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Born 15 October 1829 · Died 22 November 1907 · Q106559
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,053 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,267 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features” in Bioinformatics — cited 27,692 times.
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2009· 2 entries
Published “Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities” in Applied and Environmental Microbiology — cited 19,004 times.
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Published “The WEKA data mining software” in ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter — cited 13,093 times.
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2002· 2 entries
Published “Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer” in Nature — cited 8,644 times.
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Published “SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique” in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research — cited 26,755 times.
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1993· 1 entry
“Key to success is a stable state, not a stable government.”
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1980· 1 entry
“Rational Expectations and the Reconstruction of Macroeconomics”
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1953· 1 entry
Published “X-ray line broadening from filed aluminium and wolfram” in Acta Metallurgica — cited 9,936 times.
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1921· 1 entry
“My First Impression of the U.S.A.”
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1914· 1 entry
“By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if we value freedom, there's only one conclusion. It's time to get rid of this leftover relic we call Government.”
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1907· 2 entries
Died 1907-11-22.
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Hall died in November 1907 while visiting his son Angelo in Annapolis, Maryland.
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1901· 1 entry
Hall married Mary Gauthier, after he fully retired to Goshen, Connecticut
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1896).
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1891· 1 entry
“On 17 August while waiting and watching for the outer moon, the inner one was discovered. The observations of the 17th and 18th put beyond doubt the character of these objects and the discovery was publicly announced by Admiral Rodgers.”
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1885· 1 entry
Was President of the Philosophical Society of Washington
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1884· 1 entry
Hall showed that the position of the elliptical orbit of Saturn's moon, Hyperion, was retrograding by about 20° per year
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1879· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1879).
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1878· 1 entry
The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1879, the Arago Medal in 1893, and was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (French Legion of Honor) in 1896
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1877· 3 entries
At about 07:48 UTC and Phobos on August 18, 1877, at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D
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Awarded Lalande Prize (1877).
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Hall was encouraged by Angeline Stickney, his wife, to search for the Martian moons
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1875· 1 entry
Hall was given responsibility for the USNO 26-inch (66-cm) telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time
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1872· 1 entry
Hall published an article entitled "On an experimental determination of
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1862· 1 entry
And within a year of his arrival he was made professor
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1859· 1 entry
Asaph Hall, Jr. (1859–1930) became an astronomer.
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1856· 1 entry
Hall took a job at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and turned out to be an expert computer of orbits
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1829· 1 entry
Born 1829-10-15.
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