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George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American astrophysicist, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and as the leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes; namely, the 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory, 60-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker ...
Ivy Academia Entrepreneurial Charter School [41] Calvert Street Elementary School; Middle schools include: Woodland Hills Charter Academy (formerly known as Parkman Middle School) [42] The school opened in 1959 as "Parkman Junior High School." It received its current name in 2006. [43] George Ellery Hale Charter Academy; High schools include:
George Ellery Hale Middle School (Los Angeles) (Huskies, formerly Comets) ... School Reopened in the 2000s as Bright Star Secondary Charter Academy.
The observatory sits at the summit of 5,715-foot Mt. Wilson, accessible only by a serpentine stretch of Angeles Crest Highway. When George Ellery Hale established it in 1904 with funding from what ...
Gaspar De Portola Charter Middle School; George Ellery Hale Charter Academy; Girls Athletic Leadership School Los Angeles; Gorman Learning Center; Grace Hopper STEM Academy; Granada Hills Charter School; Grover Cleveland Charter High School; Hamlin Charter Academy; Hawthorne Math and Science Academy; Haynes Charter For Enriched Studies; Hesby ...
In 1913, George Ellery Hale presented a paper on the occasion of the Academy's 50th anniversary, outlining an expansive future agenda for the Academy. [1] Hale proposed a vision of an Academy that interacted with the "whole range of science", one that actively supported newly recognized disciplines, industrial sciences and the humanities.
The institution was founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891 and began attracting influential scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan in the early 20th century. The vocational and preparatory schools were disbanded and spun off in 1910, and the college assumed its ...
In 1982, Pasadena Alternative moved to temporary quarters at its current site on Paloma Street, adjacent to the former Hale Elementary School. Hale Elementary was named after noted astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), who in addition to co-founding the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena , also founded and directed some of ...