992 Swasey [SEP] discoverer or inventor
992 Swasey
992 Swasey is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Otto Struve in 1922 at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States. It is named after Ambrose Swasey of the Warner & Swasey Company, which built the 82-inch telescope named after Struve at McDonald Observatory.
in Exeter and is buried in the Exeter Cemetery. The Warner & Swasey Company he cofounded would continue until 1980, when it was acquired by Bendix Corporation.
Awards and honors.
- The crater Swasey on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 992 Swasey.
- At CWRU, the chair of "Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics" was named for his endowment. (Lawrence M. Krauss was named to this position in 1993.)
- In 1932 he was awarded the Franklin Medal.