| Date | Text | |
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20 Nov 1882
Henry Draper |
death Henry Draper Died 20 Nov 1882 at age 45 (born 7 Mar 1837). American physician and amateur astronomer who made the first photograph of the spectrum of a star (Vega), in 1872. He was also the first to photograph a nebula, the Orion Nebula, in 1880. For his photography of the transit of Venus in 1874, Congress ordered a gold medal struck in his honour. His father, John William Draper, in 1840 had made the first photograph of the Moon. |
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