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   Draper
   John William
   J. W. D. ; -١٨٨٢م ; دراپر، جون وليام ;
   in 1831 w.Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner (c. 1814–1870), the daughter of Daniel Gardner, court physician to John VI of Portugal & Charlott
   astronomer, astrophysicist & astrophotographer ->Henry Draper (1837-1882); chemist John Christopher Draper (1835-1885)
   1811 in St. Helens nearLiverpool;
   1882
   Hastings near New York
   John Christopher Draper, a Wesleyan clergyman
   mother Sarah (Ripley) Draper; granddaughter Antonia Maury (1866-1952), astronomer & stellar spectroscopist
   since 1822 at Woodhouse Grove School, since 1829 University College London
   United States of America
   
   ounder of the New York University School of Medicine; 1st president of the American Chemical Society (1876–77)
   
   daguerreotype; first clear photograph of a female face (1839–40) and the first detailed photograph of the Moon (1840). spectrum photography
   emworden.blogspot.de/2011/02/john-william-draper.html ; http://astro-canada.ca/_en/photo690.php?a4306_lune1845 ; click.si.edu/Story.aspx?story=101
   http://gvh.aphdigital.org/items/show/119
   DSB; DNB; George Frederick Barker: Memoir of J.W.D., Washington, 1886; K.Hentschel: Why not one more Imponderable? J.W.D.& his 'Tithonic rays', Foundations of Chemistry 4,1 (2002): 5-59. Mapping the Spectrum, 2002; A. Gernsheim 1961: 87
   American (English-born) scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian & photographer, since 1832 in Virginia, USA & since 1837 in New York City
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