American astrophysicist George Ellery Hale gained fame by building the largest telescope in the world in the mid-20th century. Hale started his career studying the sun, and using polarized light ...

Building giant telescopes on a remote mountain peak above Los Angeles was a feat itself, and the work of another astronomer, George Ellery Hale, who worked tirelessly to build out the observatory ...

The communications equipment and Observatory were not damaged. The Observatory, which was founded by George Ellery Hale in 1904, became the world's foremost astronomical research facility with ...