Clyde William Tombaugh was born on February 4, 1906. He spent most of his childhood on a farm near Streator, Illinois. In 1922, the family relocated to a farm in western Kansas. Tombaugh glimpsed his first telescopic view of the heavens through his...

American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh, an astronomer and master telescope maker, spent much of his career performing a painstaking photographic survey of the heavens from Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. This led to the discovery of Pluto...

American Astronomer 1906-1997 Clyde W. Tombaugh, famous for his discovery of Pluto, the solar system's ninth major planet, was born in 1906 in Streator, Illinois. His family moved to Burdett, Kansas, when he was young. In 1928 he sent planetary...

1906-1998 American astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto. Tombaugh helped Lowell Observatory director Vesto Slipher search for a new planet. The previous director, Percival Lowell, had suggested the possible location of a planet affecting the...

Clyde William Tombaugh (1906–1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator[1], LaSalle County, Illinois. After his family moved to Burdett, Kansas, Tombaugh built his first telescope...

Clyde Tombaugh, 90, the astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto before he had even saved enough money to attend college, died Jan. 17 at his home in Mesilla Park, N.M. He had a lung ailment. Mr. Tombaugh had been an astronomy professor at...

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