John August Anderson

Bayan kammala karatun digirinsa na farko,Anderson ya yi aiki a matsayin malami har zuwa 1904 lokacin da ya yanke shawarar ci gaba da karatunsa.Ya yi rajista a Jami'ar Johns Hopkins,inda ya ci gaba da karatun digiri a karkashin jagorancin Farfesa Joseph Sweetman Ames,a kan Absorption and Emission Spectra na Neodymium da Erbium Compounds. Bayan ya sami PhD a 1907 ya zauna a Johns Hopkins kuma ya zama farfesa a ilimin taurari a 1908.Ya ci gaba da bincike kan shaye-shaye da abubuwan da ke fitar da iska kuma“an bukaci ya dauki nauyin injin da Henry Rowland ya gina,babban majagaba na Amurka a fannin duban gani.Anderson ya tace na'urar Rowland don samar da gratings na ko da mafi kyawun ikon warwarewa” kuma sun ci gaba da samar da su,saboda babban ingancin gratings suna cikin babban buƙata a lokacin.A cikin 1912 bisa buƙatar George E.Hale ya ɗauki hutu na shekara ɗaya daga John Hopkins don kulawa da kuma taimakawa tare da gina babban injin mulki a Mt. Wilson observatory.A 1913 ya koma John Hopkins,amma a 1916,ya bar aiki a MtWilson. Babban gudunmawar da ya bayar ita ce karbuwar da ya yi na fasahar interferometer na Michelson don auna taurari biyu na kusa.Ya yi amfani da abin rufe fuska mai juyawa a mayar da hankali don auna rabuwar Capella .  A cikin 1920s, ya yi aiki tare da Harry O. Wood don haɓaka seismometer Wood–Anderson .  A cikin 1928 bayan Cibiyar Fasaha ta California ta sami kuɗi don gina na'urar hangen nesa mai girman inci 200 na Palomar, Hale ya nemi ya zama babban jami'in zartarwa na sabuwar Majalisar Dokokin da aka kafa, wanda alhakinsa shi ne kula da dukkan bangarorin aikin. A cikin shekaru ashirin masu zuwa, Anderson ya ba da umarni da kuma shiga cikin zaɓin wurin, ƙira da gwajin madubi mai inci 200, kafa da aiki da kantin kayan gani da ke wurin, da ƙira da gwajin tsarin na'urar hangen nesa da, musamman, ta. kayan aiki.  Anderson ya ci gaba da kasancewa shugaban Majalisar Kulawa har zuwa lokacin sadaukarwar na'urar hangen nesa, a cikin Yuni 1948. 

Ya mutu a ranar 2 ga Disamba,1959,yana da shekaru 83 a Altadena,California . An ambaci sunan dutsen Anderson akan wata a cikin ƙwaƙwalwarsa.
Category:Mutuwan 1959