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Jan 24, 1882 Edgerton, Wisconsin, United States Died on 08 Apr 1968 (aged 86)
American astronomer
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About Harold D. Babcock
- Harold Delos Babcock (January 24, 1882 – April 8, 1968) was an American astronomer and is the father of Horace W.
- Babcock.
- He was of English and German ancestry.
- He was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin, before completing high school in Los Angeles and was accepted to the University of California, Berkeley in 1901.
- He worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1907 until 1948.
- He specialized in solar spectroscopy and precisely mapped the distribution of magnetic fields over the Sun's surface, working alongside his son.
- In 1953 he won the Bruce Medal.
- Babcock died of a heart attack in Pasadena, California at age 86.The crater Babcock on the Moon is named after him, as is asteroid 3167 Babcock (jointly named after him and his son).
