RARE \"1st Photo of the Sun\" Richard Tousey Signed 5,75X3.5 Card For Sale

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RARE \"1st Photo of the Sun\" Richard Tousey Signed 5,75X3.5 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Photo of the Sun" Richard Tousey Hand Signed 5,75X3.5 Card.  

April 15, 1997) was an American astronomer. He was a pioneer in the observation of

the sun from space and took the first photographs of the sun's ultraviolet spectrum. Richard Tousey was born on May 18,

1908, in Somerville, Massachusetts,

to Coleman and Adella Hill Tousey. He received a bachelor's degree from Tufts University (1928), then MA (1929) and Ph.D.(1933)

in physics from Harvard University. His

dissertation related to measuring optical properties of fluorite at 1216 angstroms was completed under Theodore Lyman. Tousey taught and conducted research at Harvard from 1933 to

1936, then Tufts until 1941. Upon invitation by E.O. Hulburt,

Tousey joined the Naval

Research Laboratory where his initial work focused on night

vision. Using captured V-2 rockets made

available for research at White Sands Missile Range,

he was able to measure the first ultraviolet (UV) spectrum of the sun. 

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