George Hale Signed Letters To Frederick Gardner Cottrell

by George E Hale Frederick Gardner Cottrell

$500 · Offered by Second Story Books

1920, 1921. Two-page ALS from George E. Hale to Cottrell, dated May 20, 1920, congratulating him on hisappointment to the directorship of the Bureau of Mines. In Very Good plus condition. Hale was anotable American astrophysicist known today for the discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and for his role in the construction of several large telescopes, which themselves have led to the discovery of many astrological bodies. Letterhead reads “425 Rose Avenue,

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