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Noun Named Entity
Categories: American astronomers, Steam-powered aircraft, 1834 births, Harvard College Observatory people, 19th-century American inventors
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Langley  Samuel Pierpoint Langley  Samuel Pierpont Langley  Samuel Langley  Samuel P. Langley
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United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906) WordNet 3.0
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United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. Wikipedia
American astronomer, and physicist, inventor Wikipedia Disambiguation
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian Wikidata
IS A
inventor
astronomer
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
John Scott Medal
Royal Medal
Prix Jules Janssen
Janssen Medal
National Aviation Hall of Fame
+4 relations
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
EDUCATED AT
Boston High School
The English High School
EMPLOYER
Harvard University
United States Naval Academy
University of Pittsburgh
Allegheny Observatory
Smithsonian Institution
FAMILY NAME
Langley
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
aviation
GIVEN NAME
Samuel
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
American Antiquarian Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
+3 relations
OCCUPATION
pilot
engineer
astronomer
physicist
astrophysicist
+2 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Roxbury
PLACE OF BURIAL
Forest Hills Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Aiken
SEX OR GENDER
male
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0
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Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley
Open English WordNet
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Samuel Pierpont Langley, Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley
Wikipedia
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Samuel Langley
Wikidata
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Samuel Pierpont Langley
Wikipedia Redirections
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Samuel P. Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley, Samuel Pierpont Langley

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