Google honors Guillermo Haro on what would have been his 105th birthday

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Google honors Guillermo Haro on what would have been his 105th birthday

 
POSTED ON Mar 21, 2018
 

Google is remembering the Mexican astronomer Guillermo Haro, who passed away on April 26, 1988. His birthday is today, and to honor him, Google has a special Google Doodle.

Guillermo Haro (March 21, 1913 – April 26, 1988) was the first Mexican elected to the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) of the United Kingdom.

The RAS was founded in 1820 in London, England, to encourage and promote the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science.

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Born in Mexico City in 1913, Haro studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He became interested in astronomy, was hired in 1943 as an assistant at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Tonantzintla, and then worked briefly as an intern at the Harvard College Observatory.

Upon his return to Mexico in 1945 he continued working at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Tonantzintla,  where he was responsible for the commissioning of the new 24-31-inch. Schmidt camera and became involved in the study of extremely red and extremely blue stars.

‘Contributions to observational astronomy’ 

Guillermo Haro made many contributions to observational astronomy, especially with the Tonantzintla Schmidt telescope.

Haro and co-workers discovered flare stars in the Orion nebula region, and later on in stellar aggregates of different ages. His intense activity detecting flare stars continued till the end of his life.

Other major research projects carried out by Haro included the list of 8746 blue stars in the direction of the north galactic pole published jointly with W. J. Luyten in 1961.

Haro’s list of 44 blue galaxies, compiled in 1956, was a precursor to the work of Benjamin Markarian and others in searching for such galaxies. Haro also discovered a number of T Tauri stars, one supernova, more than 10 novae, and one comet.

Source: Wikipedia

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