George Hale

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

It means space is cool

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

I bet all astronomers will agree when I say, like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times.

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Scariest moment ever was when I died my telescope stopped being built during WWII, but it was eventually finished and became the largest in the world till 1976

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

@tysondoesspace Too bad that’s not possible

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Did you know I founded the Astrophysical Journal in 1894 which professionalized astrophysics? I’d say that’s pretty cool

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

You can thank me later

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

@EdwinHubble_Sfs Hey man, haven’t seen you since I hired you at Mount Wilson. How’s it been?

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Have I mentioned my amazing telescope in Palomar Observatory? It has a horseshoe mount that allows it to access the entire sky including Polaris and the stars near it. (It also has 5 stars on Google you should go check it out)

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

I’m very happy my research eventually led to the discovery of the sun’s magnetic field and it’s polarity reversals with the sunspot cycle.

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Update: my headache is getting worse and my elf advisor is back.

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Dang, looking at a screen like this is making my headaches flare up. Hope it doesn’t get too much worse.

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Living through WWI was difficult, but I was happy to help found the National Research Council to support the government with scientific research.

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

I’m gonna go on a vacation to Maine for a couple months again just like old times. I’ll need the break, talking to people this much makes me uncomfortable

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

All this talk about astronomy takes me back to when I was professor of astrophysics at Beloit. It was only for two years though, but then I worked at the University of Chicago for 12 years

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Not to brag, but I won many awards when I was alive such as the gold medal from the Royal Astronomy Society and the Galileo Medal from the University of Florence. I wish I could win more, but most science organizations don’t allow dead people to win awards.

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Shoutout to my father Thomas Hale who built the Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory for me. Couldn’t have been as successful as I was without him

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

Any other astronomers go to MIT? I invented the spectroheliograph there.

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

@CassinisMane You’re offending me right now by talking to me old man

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

I was literally up all night checking out other astronomers here. I just can’t seem to ever get a good night’s sleep.

[George Hale @WizardOfTheSun]

I died on February 21, 1938 at the Las Encinas Sanitarium in Pasadena. It’s kinda sad. I wanted to build more observatories.