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Type of entity
Personne
Forme autorisée du nom
Langley, Samuel Pierpont
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Description area
Dates d’existence
1834-1906
Historique
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