Tombaugh, Clyde
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 mov...
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Clyde William Tombaugh
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...
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Tombaugh, Clyde W. (1906-1997)
American astronomer
Clyde W. Tombaugh, an astronomer and master telescope maker, spent much of his career performing a painstaking photographic survey of the heavens fro...
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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 ...
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Tombaugh, Clyde
Clyde William Tombaugh
Tombaugh, Clyde W. (1906-1997)
Clyde W. Tombaugh