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William Wilson Morgan

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William Wilson Morgan (January 3 1906 – June 21 1994) was an American astronomer.

He worked at Yerkes Observatory. Along with Donald Osterbrock and Stewart Sharpless, he used distance measurements of O and B type stars to show the existence of spiral arms in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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