| William W. Campbell AKA William Wallace Campbell Born: 11-Apr-1862
Birthplace: Hancock County, OH
Died: 14-Jun-1938
Location of death: San Francisco, CA
Cause of death: Suicide
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Stellar Motions Astronomer William W. Campbell worked at Lick Observatory under James E. Keeler, before becoming the Observatory's director. He cataloged stars using the then-new technology of astronomical spectroscopy, and discovered numerous binary stars. He headed a 1922 expedition to Australia to observe and photograph a solar eclipse, and made headlines when his findings from the trip were interpreted as supporting Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Suffering advancing blindness and difficulty with speech following a stroke, he was 76 years of age when he leapt to his death from a fourth-story window in San Francisco. Father: Robert Wilson Campbell (farmer, d. 1866)
Mother: Harriet Welsh Campbell
Wife: Elizabeth Ballard Thompson Campbell (dated 1888-92, m. 28-Dec-1892)f
Son: Wallace Campbell
Son: Douglas Campbell
Son: Kenneth Campbell
High School: Central High School, Fostoria, OH
University: BS Engineering, University of Michigan (1886)
Professor: Mathematics, University of Colorado (1886-88)
Teacher: Astronomy, University of Michigan (1888-91)
Scholar: Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz (1890-1900)
Administrator: Director of Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz (1900-30)
Administrator: President, University of California at Berkeley (1923-30)
Bruce Medal 1915
Henry Draper Medal 1906
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1906
American Association for the Advancement of Science President (1915)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Astronomical Society President (1922-25)
American Philosophical Society
Astronomical Society of the Pacific President (1895, 1910, 1918)
International Astronomical Union Vice President (1922-25)
National Academy of Sciences President (1931-35)
Royal Society
Lunar Crater Campbell
Asteroid Namesake 2751 Campbell
Stroke
Scottish Ancestry (paternal)
Author of books:
Stellar Motions (1913)
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