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Samuel Langley
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American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
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Samuel Pierpont Langley was born on August 22, 1834, and died on February 27, 1906. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
A separate entry for an author named Samuel Langley-Swain lists nineteen works, including *Daisy and Dandelion*, *What Wesley Wore*, *Santa's Wish*, *Where Björn Belongs*, and *The Blanket Bears*. Crossref data indicates five works associated with this name. Additionally, a MusicBrainz entry for a person named Samuel Langley identifies the artist as female, from Montgomery, and associated with the country genre.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Daisy and Dandelion
- What Wesley Wore
- Santa's Wish
- Where Björn Belongs
- The Blanket Bears
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Montgomery
- Active from
- 1999-05-03
Discography
- Perfect2018
- Here2018
- One of the Guys2020
- Match Made in Heaven2020
- If You Have To2021
- Damn You2022
- Hey Ma I Made It2022
- Country Boy’s Dream Girl2022
- Excuse The Mess2023
- That’s Why We Fight2023
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,879x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,721x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,894x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,383x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Spencer Fullerton Baird
- Succeeded by
- Charles Doolittle Walcott
- Born
- ( 1834-08-22 ) August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- February 27, 1906 (1906-02-27) (aged 71), Aiken, South Carolina , U.S.
- Known for
- solar physics aviation experiments
- Awards
- Rumford Medal (1886) , Henry Draper Medal (1886) , Janssen Medal (1893)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samuel Langley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.