| LC control no. | n 88222502 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 1816-1892 |
| Variant(s) | Rutherfurd, Lewis M., 1816-1892 Rutherfurd, L. M., 1816-1892 Rutherfurd, 1816-1892 Rutherford, Lewis Morris, 1816-1892 Rutherford, Lewis M., 1816-1892 Rutherford, L. M., 1816-1892 Rutherford, 1816-1892 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Address | 175 2nd Avenue New York N.Y . United States |
| Birth date | 1816-11-25 |
| Death date | 1892-05-30 |
| Place of birth | Morrisania (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Warren County (N.J.) Allamuchy (N.J. : Township) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics Astronomy Photography Astronomical photography Lunar photography Astronomical spectroscopy |
| Affiliation | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) Royal Astronomical Society American Academy of Arts and Sciences Columbia University |
| Profession or occupation | Astrophysicists Astronomers Photographers Inventors Lawyers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from U. of SC, Caroliniana Lib. for Morris-Rutherfurd family papers, 1717-1889 (Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, 1816-1892) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 1816-1892) WWWA, 1607-1896 (Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, astrophysicist; b. Morrisania, N.Y., 1816; invented a photographic telescope, 1858; trustee Columbia; d. N.Y.C., 1892) DAB, 1935 (Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris; s. of Robert Walter and Sabina (Morris) Rutherfurd and a great-grandson of Lewis Morris, 1726-1798, signer of Declaration of Independence; m. Catherine Alexander) Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris. Three photographs of the moon, 1865: (two photographs are signed: Lewis M. Rutherfurd) Warner, Deborah Jean. "Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris," in American national biography, 1999 (print), 2000 (online), viewed online, January 12, 2018 (Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris (25 November 1816-30 May 1892), astrophysicist; born at Morrisania, New York, a residential section of the south Bronx; admitted to the bar in 1837 and spent the next twelve years practicing law in New York City. "His main interest, however, was in the new techniques of astronomical photography and spectroscopy. His work helped make spectroscopy a basic element of astrophysics, and it helped photography gain acceptance as an important astronomical research technology. This scientific work brought Rutherfurd numerous honors, including election as a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences and as a foreign associate of the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as the Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences." Worked from an observatory he built in the garden of his house in New York City; trustee of Columbia University, to which he gave his telescope and photographic micrometer in 1883 and his astronomical photographs in 1890; died at "Tranquility," his family's country home [in Allamuchy Township, Warren County, N.J.; not same as hamlet of Tranquility, N.J.]) <https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1301443> New York Times, June 1, 1892, viewed online, January 12, 2018 (obituary: "Lewis Morris Rutherfurd died on Decoration Day at his home, Tranquillity [sic], N.J., in the seventy-sixth year of his age") Hughes, Stefan. Catchers of the light, 2012, via Amazon Books Preview, January 12, 2018: page 739 ("Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, born: 25th November 1816, Morrisania, Bronx, New York, USA, died: 30th May 1892, 'Tranquility,' Allamuchy [Township], Warren [County], New Jersey, USA") page 760 ("[He] expressed a desire to spend the last months of his life at the family's ancestral home 'Tranquility' in Allamuchy, New Jersey, where he died on the 30th of November 1892") New York Public Library Photographers' Identities Catalog, January 12, 2018 (Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, American, 1816-1892; Birth (November 25, 1816): Bronx, NY, USA; studio or business: 175 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, USA; death (May 30, 1892), Tranquility, NJ, USA) <https://pic.nypl.org/constituents/1955> Photography Database, January 12, 2018 (Rutherfurd, Lewis M.; also known as Rutherford, Lewis M.; Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris; Rutherfurd, L. M.; "Trained as a lawyer, Rutherfurd abandoned his practice in 1849 to experiment with astrophysics and astronomical photography. Especially known for his lunar photographs ... His stereographs of the moon were marketed by several different publishers. He devised many instruments including a 'micrometer for the measurement of astronomical photographs' ... Beginning with 19th century publishers of his stereo views of the moon, Rutherfurd's name has often been spelled Rutherford, a variant that persists to the present in many published sources") <http://photographydatabase.org/> OCLC, January 12, 2018 (access points: Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 1816-1892; Rutherfurd, L. M.; Rutherfurd, L. M. (Lewis Morris), 1816-1892; Rutherfurd, Lewis M.; Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris; Rutherford, Lewis M.; usage: Lewis M. Rutherfurd; L.M. Rutherford [i.e. Rutherfurd]; Rutherfurd; Rutherford [i.e. Rutherfurd]) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 2006051711 |
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