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Bailey, Solon Irving (1854–1931)


Solon Bailey
American astronomer who joined the Harvard College Observatory staff in 1879 and was for many years in charge of the Harvard southern station at Arequipa, Peru. His studies of globular clusters led to the discovery of "cluster variables," now known as RR Lyrae stars.


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