About George Bassett Clark
Lived 1827 – 1891 (aged 64). George Bassett Clark was an American astronomer.
George Bassett Clark (February 14, 1827 – December 20, 1891) was an American instrument maker and astronomer.
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts and educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, he was the son of Alvan Clark, part of a family of refracting telescope makers. In 1846, George Bassett Clark joined his father and brother Alvan Graham Clark at the family's telescope works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm, Alvan Clark & Sons, made many of the record-breaking refracting instruments, including the still-largest refracting telescope at the Yerkes Observatory, gaining "worldwide fame and distribution", wrote one author on astronomy in 1899.
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American astronomer (1827-1891)
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George Bassett Clark was born on 14 February 1827 in Lowell.
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George Bassett Clark died on 20 December 1891 in Cambridge.
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