Born Zürich, Switzerland, 2 October 1886
Died Oakland, California, USA, 10 September 1956
Trumpler, Robert Julius. Portrait originally appearing in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in an article by H. Weaver and P. Weaver (1957, PASP, 69, 304), copyright 1957, Astronomical Society of the Pacific; reproduced with permission of the Editors
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Haramundanis, K. (2014). Trumpler, Robert Julius. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1395
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