Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory / Palomar Observatory / Carnegie-Caltech building / McDonald Observatory / University of California / University of Chicago / /
NaturalFeature
Hat Creek / Mt. Wilson / /
Organization
ReSTAR committee / Congress / Carnegie Institution / ALTAIR committee / University of California / Federal government / the University of Chicago / Magellan Consortium / National Science Foundation / Harvard / Yale / Survey Committee / /
Person
John Quincy Adams / John Grula / Steve Strom / Hale Telescope / Otto Struve / Dick McCray / George Ellery Hale / Carnegie / Frank K. Edmondson / Todd Boroson / /
Position
author / president / first author / director of both Yerkes / Private / /
Former president John Quincy Adams first proposed a federally-funded astronomical observatory for the United States in the 1840’s. The idea was scorned by Congress and ridiculed in the press. The first US observatori