A. E. Douglass
American astronomer
Born on: July 5, 1867Died on: March 20, 1962
Aged: 94 years 258 days (1136 months)
Nationality: 20
Birth Sign: Cancer
A. E. Douglass was an American astronomer and archaeologist. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle, and founded the discipline of dendrochronology, which is a method of dating wood by analyzing the growth ring pattern.
He started his discoveries in this field in 1894 when he was working at the Lowell Observatory. During this time he was an assistant to Percival Lowell, but fell out with him when his experiments made him doubt the existence of artificial "canals" on Mars and visible spokes on Venus.
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