The History of OSA
George Ellery Hale and the Yerkes Observatory
How OSA’s first vice president “licked the Lick.”
George E. Hale observing with the spectrograph of the Snow telescope.
George Ellery Hale served as the Society’s first vice president from 1916 to 1917, during the presidency of Perley Nutting. He was a charter member and he became an Ives Medalist in 1935. (Hale never became president; it wasn’t until 1922 that OSA leadership decided that VPs would automatically advance to that post at the next election.)
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