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...years. In 1894 he established the Lowell Observatory, of which he is the head, at Flagstaff, Arizona. In May, 1900, he undertook an expedition to Tripoli to observe an eclipse of the sun, and a few years later sent a party to the Andes to photograph the planet Mars. It is in connection with this expedition that Professor Lowell is best known. He has made many discoveries about Mars, and was awarded the Janssen Medal of the French Astronomical Society for research work concerning that planet in 1907. He has been a nonresident professor of astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute...
Professor Lowell is best known for his researches concerning the planet Mars, for which he was awarded the Janssen medal by the French Astronomical Society in 1904. He has lived for a number of years in Japan, and has undertaken several expeditions for astronomical investigations. He is a non-resident professor of astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and belongs to many scientific societies...