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Henry Draper (
March 7,
1837 –
November 20 1882) was an American
doctor and
astronomer.
Henry Draper's father,
John William Draper, was an accomplished doctor, chemist, botanist, and professor at
New York University; he was also the first to photograph the moon through a telescope in the winter of 1839-1840. Draper's mother was Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner, daughter of the personal physician to the Emperor of
Brazil.
He graduated from
New York University medical school, at the age of 20, in
1857
). He worked first as a physician at
Bellevue Hospital, and later as both a professor and dean of medicine at
New York University (NYU). In 1867 he married Anna Mary Palmer, a wealthy socialite.
Draper was one of the pioneers of the use of
astrophotography. He took the first stellar spectrum in
1872 that showed
absorption lines. He directed an expedition to photograph the
1874 transit of Venus, and was the first to photograph the
Orion Nebula, on
September 30 1880 using his 11 inch Clark Brothers photographic refractor he took a 50 minute exposure.
For his activities he received numerous awards, including honorary law degrees from NYU and the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Congressional medal for directing the U.S. expedition to photograph the 1874 transit of Venus, and election to both the
National Academy of Sciences and the
Astronomische Gesellschaft. In addition, he held memberships in the
American Photographic Society, the
American Philosophical Society, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
After his untimely early death from double
pleurisy, his widow funded the
Henry Draper Medal for outstanding contributions to
astrophysics and a telescope, which was used to prepare the
Henry Draper Catalog of stellar spectra. This historical Henry Draper's telescope is now in at the
Toruń Centre for Astronomy (
Nicolaus Copernicus University) at
Piwnice in
Poland. The small
Draper crater on the
Moon is named in his honor.
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