Catherine Wolfe Bruce
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Catherine Wolfe Bruce was a noted American philanthropist and patron of astronomy.
Bruce double astrograph at the Heidelberg Observatory in Germany
The original George Bruce Library on 42nd Street, 1888
Max Wolf
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Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was the chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heid
Catherine Wolfe Bruce
…She donated funds to the Harvard College Observatory (U.S.A.), Yerkes Observatory (U.S.A.) and Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Germany), run by Max Wolf at the time, to buy new telescopes at each of those institutes. In 1887, she donated the George Bruce Free Library. Bruce established the Bruce Medal…
Max Wolf