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George William Myers (1864–1931) was born in Champaign County, Illinois. He studied engineering at the University of Illinois. Like many other American students in the exact sciences at the time, he went to Germany to obtain a Ph.D. 2 In 1896, he defended a thesis in theoretical astronomy at the University of Munich under Hugo von Seeliger’s direction, on the source of the variability in the β Lyræ binary star system.
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Walter, S.A., Nabonnand, P., Krömer, R., Schiavon, M. (2016). GeorgeWilliam Myers. In: Walter, S., Nabonnand, P., Krömer, R., Schiavon, M. (eds) La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré, les astronomes, et les géodésiens. Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8293-3_36
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