# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-charles-pickering
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:13:22.923Z

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name: "Edward Charles Pickering"
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description: "Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations."
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birthDate: "1846-07-19"
deathDate: "1919-02-03"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump