| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:Harvard_University 
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                                | gptkbp:awardReceived | gptkb:Bruce_Medal gptkb:Henry_Draper_Medal
 gptkb:Rumford_Prize
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1846-07-19 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts,_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:contributedTo | gptkb:Harvard_Computers 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 1919-02-03 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Cambridge,_Massachusetts,_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:employer | gptkb:Harvard_University 
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                                | gptkbp:fieldOfWork | gptkb:astronomy physics
 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | development of stellar classification 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | gptkb:Harvard_College_Observatory gptkb:Pickering's_Harem
 gptkb:Pickering_series
 work on stellar photometry
 work on stellar spectroscopy
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
 gptkb:Royal_Society
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:American 
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                                | gptkbp:notableStudent | gptkb:Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin gptkb:Antonia_Maury
 gptkb:Williamina_Fleming
 gptkb:Annie_Jump_Cannon
 gptkb:Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt
 gptkb:Annie_Russell_Maunder
 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:physicist gptkb:astronomer
 
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                                | gptkbp:positionHeld | Director of Harvard College Observatory Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
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                                | gptkbp:restingPlace | gptkb:Mount_Auburn_Cemetery 
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                                | gptkbp:sibling | gptkb:William_Henry_Pickering 
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                                | gptkbp:signature | Edward Charles Pickering signature.svg 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Pickering_crater gptkb:Harvard_College_Observatory
 gptkb:Beta_Cephei_variable
 gptkb:Eunice_White_Bullard
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 6 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Edward Charles Pickering 
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