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Joel Stebbins (ur.30 lipca 1878 w Omaha, zm. 16 marca 1966 w Palo Alto) – amerykański astronom.. Życiorys. Studiował na University of Nebraska i University of Wisconsin, stopień doktora uzyskał na University of California, gdzie był uczniem m.in. Williama Campbella.W latach 1903-1922 kierował obserwatorium astronomicznym na University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a od 1922 do 1948 ...
Joel Stebbins (July 30, 1878 – March 16, 1966) was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy. He was director of the University of Illinois Observatory from 1903 to 1922 where he performed innovative work with the selenium cell.
Joel, ur. 30 VII 1878, Omaha (stan nebraska), zm. 16 III 1966, Palo Alto (stan Kalifornia), astronom amerykański; profesor i dyr. obserwatoriów astr. uniw. stanu Illinois w Normal i University of Wisconsin; pionier fotoelektrycznej obserwacji gwiazd; odkrywca wielu podwójnych gwiazd zaćmieniowych i gwiazd zmiennych.
American photometrist Joel Stebbins was an innovator in the use of photoelectric photometry, and in 1915 applied these techniques to measure the first light curve of an eclipsing binary from which the distance to the system could be determined.
Early on, Stebbins used the popular Pickering visual program to survey stars in search of undetected eclipsing binary stars. Later in 1904, he began the estimates of the relative magnitudes of 107 double stars, duplicating the work of astronomer E.C. Pickering in 1878.
Born in Omaha, Joel Stebbins earned his B.S. at at the University of Nebraska. After some graduate work there and at the University of Wisconsin, he earned the third Ph.D. in astronomy granted by the University of California, where his advisor was Lick Observatory director W. Wallace Campbell.
JOEL STEBBINS 1878-1966 217 1935; his sister, Millicent, accompanied us on the 2400-mile drive. We stopped in Omaha and visited the parental home where Steb-bins was born in 1878. Farther west but still in Nebraska, I was driving when Stebbins suddenly and in considerable excitement asked me to stop. As he got out of the car, a Union Pacific ...
