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George Ellery Hale, Sc.D., Ph.D., LL.D. (June 29, 1868 February 21, 1938) was an American solar astronomer, born in Chicago. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, (1889-90), and at Berlin (1893-94). As an undergraduate at MIT, he invented the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discoveries of the solar vortices and magnetic fields of sun spots. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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