Frank Schlesinger - Awards and honors

Astronomer, born in New York City, New York, USA. An astronomer at the Yerkes Observatory (1903–5), he also directed the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory (1905–20) and the Yale University Observatory (1920–41). A much-honoured astronomer, he compiled a catalogue of 4000 stellar distances (1935) and wrote monographs about photographic methods and stellar parallaxes.

Frank Schlesinger (May 11, 1871 – July 10, 1943) was an American astronomer.

He worked at Yerkes Observatory and pioneered the use of photographic methods to determine stellar parallaxes.

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "The name is so difficult for those who do not speak German that I am usually called sles'in-jer, to rime with messenger. Wagnalls, 1936.)

Awards and honors

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1927) Bruce Medal (1929) Schlesinger crater on the Moon was named after him, as was the asteroid 1770 Schlesinger.