He himself taught medicine and physics at the City University of New York and was the first to photograph the spectra of a star, Vega, and the first to photograph a nebula, the Orion, but his name is now most commonly attached to a project begun on his behalf after his death.
The father of this man was also an astronomer who formulated the law named for him which states that only absorbed radiation can produce chemical change and who had taken the first photograph of the moon in 1840. He himself taught medicine and physics at the City University of New York and was the first to photograph the spectra of a star, Vega, and the first to photograph a nebula, the Orion, but his name is now most commonly attached to a project begun on his behalf after his death. FTP name this astronomer whose wife set up a memorial fund at Harvard which resulted in the catalogue of stellar spectra named for him.
The father of this man was also an astronomer who formulated the law named for him which states that only absorbed radiation can produce chemical change and who had taken the first photograph of the moon in 1840.
Henry Draper