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Born in 1824, Gould studied physics and astronomy at Harvard College and then astronomy at the university in Göttingen. After earning his doctorate in astronomy, he returned to the USA and was appointed director of Dudley Observatory in Albany. He was invited to organize a national observatory in Argentina, where he spent fifteen years at the helm of Córdoba Observatory.
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An American astronomer born in 1843, who studied at Lehigh University and went to Argentina in 1870 to work as Benjamin A. Gould's senior assistant, succeeding him as director of Córdoba Observatory in 1885. Upon his initiative, the Córdoba Durchmusterung star catalog was begun in 1892, but he died before it was completed.
