Mount Wilson Observatory

Norman Bridge Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington... 

Hubble. Edwin Powell (1889-1953) US astronomer, who worked at both the Yerkes Observatory and the Mount Wilson Observatory. Most of his studies involved nebulae and galaxies, which he classified in 1926. In 1929 he established the Hubble constant, which enabled him to estimate the age of the universe. The Hubble space telescope is named after him. 

Possibly, the first quantitative NIR measurement was the determination of atmospheric moisture at the Mount Wilson observatory by F. E. Fowle in 1912 [6] followed, in 1938, by Ellis and Bath [7] who determined amount of water in gelatin. In the early 1940s, Barchewitz [8] analyzed fuels and Barr and Harp [9] published the spectra of some vegetable oils. In the late 1940s Harry Willis, working at ICI, used a prewar spectrometer to characterize polymers and later employed NIR for the measurement of the thickness of polymer films. 

McKellar A (1940) Evidence Iot the molecular origin of some hitherto unidentified intersteffar lines. Publ Astronom Soc Pac 52 187 (b) Adams WS (1941) Some results with the Coude spectrograph of the Mount Wilson observatory. Astrophys J 93 11 (c) Douglas AE, Herzberg G (1941) CH in interstellar space and in the laboratory. Astrophys J 94 381... 

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