astronomer
Samuel Langley.
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
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About Samuel Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.
Everything about Samuel Langley →- Occupation
- astronomer, aerospace engineer, astrophysicist, physicist
- Position held
- Secretary of the Smithsonian
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 22, 1834
- Died
- February 27, 1906