| Authorised form of name | Gould; Benjamin Apthorp (1824 - 1896) |
| Dates | 1824 - 1896 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of birth | 27 September 1824 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of death | 26 November 1896 |
| Research field | Astronomy |
| Activity | Education:
Harvard
Career:
Visited Europe to study the instruments of observatories (1845); returned to America (1848); responsible for the Astronomical Journal (1849-1861); Director, Dudley Observatory, Albany (1856-1859); Director, observatory at Cordoba, Argentina (1868-1885); died after falling down stairs
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 26/11/1891 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1897-1898 vol 62 pp i-iii signed by E J S |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/27831883 |
| Code | NA5948 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1891/20 | Gould, Benjamin Apthorp: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/13/816 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 2 December 1896 |
| NLB/9/142 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. | 5 April 1894 |
| MC/11/219 | Letter from B A [Benjamin Apthorp] Gould, Argentine National Observatory, Córdoba, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, London | 27 May 1878 |
| MC/11/218 | Letter from B A [Benjamin Apthorp] Gould, Argentine National Observatory, Córdoba, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 22 May 1878 |
| MC/11/165 | Letter from B A [Benjamin Apthorp] Gould, National Observatory, Cordoba, Argentine Republic, to [Alexander William Williamson], Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, London | 2 February 1878 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MC/15/251 | Letter from [Benjamin Apthorp] Gould, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London | 4 January 1892 |
| MC/15 | Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1889-1892 |