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Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 & mdash ; November 16, 1916), the American astronomer.
Lowell is not a professional astronomer, He was born in Boston, a prestigious family in 1876, he graduated from Harvard University, specializing in mathematics. graduation he traveled to the Far East, to China when he heard that the Martian canals Gio Vanni Menschel Yapa Lini found on Mars, he had a great interest in 1894 with private money in Arizona State Fred Gus Taff, establish the Lowell Observatory, specializing in Mars Fred Rodriguez the Taff terrain high, cloudless day. Lowell drew a large surface of Mars map them published. Lowell In his later years, his interest turned to find the ninth planet of the solar system beyond Neptune. he the dead Houluoweier Observatory to continue this work in 1930, Pluto really found an abbreviation of his name the abbreviation PL Pluto contains, shows discoverer Tombaugh he memory.
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