哈罗德·D·巴布科克1882—1968

巴布科克专门从事太阳光谱的研究，并且绘制了太阳表面的磁场分布。他和他的儿子揭示了某些恒星上强磁场的存在。

生平

巴布科克出生于威斯康辛州埃杰顿。他在洛杉矶读完高中，并在1901年进入了加州大学伯克利分校。1907年至1948年间，他在 威尔逊山天文台工作。

奖项和荣誉

奖项

太平洋天文学会布鲁斯奖章（1953年）

以他的名字命名的事物

月球上的巴布科克环形山，以他的名字命名

小行星3167巴布科克，以他和他儿子的名字共同命名

Harold Delos Babcock (January 24, 1882 – April 8, 1968) was an American astronomer. He was of English and German ancestry. He was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin, before completing high school in Los Angeles and was accepted to the University of California, Berkeley in 1901. He studied electrical engineering and graduated in 1907. After that he worked briefly for NIST, and as an instructor in Berkeley, until he was proposed a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory. He worked there from 1909 until 1948.

Babcock specialized in solar spectroscopy and precisely mapped the distribution of magnetic fields over the Sun's surface, working alongside his son, Horace W. Babcock. He developed the "ruling engine which has made many of the finest diffraction gratings" and, together with his son, the solar magnetograph.

In 1953 Babcock won the Bruce Medal. Babcock died of a heart attack in Pasadena, California at age 86.

The crater Babcock on the Moon is named after him, as is asteroid 3167 Babcock (jointly named after him and his son).