Charles Augustus Young
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This article is about the American professor and astronomer. For the American university professor and administrator, see Charles E. Young.
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| Born | December 15, 1834 |
| Died | January 3, 1908 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | astronomy |
| Institutions | Princeton |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth |
Charles Augustus Young (December 15, 1834 – January 4, 1908) one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States, died of pneumonia after a brief illness, at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire, on 4 January 1908. He observed solar eclipses and worked on spectroscopy of the Sun. Graduated from Dartmouth, he later became a professor there in 1865, remaining until 1877 when he went to Princeton.
He was a successful educator who wrote a popular and widely-used series of astronomy textbooks, including Manual of Astronomy. Many years later in 1927, when Henry Norris Russell, Raymond Smith Dugan and John Quincy Stewart wrote their own two-volume textbook, they entitled it Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy.
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Works written by or about Charles Augustus Young at Wikisource- The New Student's Reference Work/Young, Charles Augustus
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