Editing Samuel Langley (section)

==Life==
Langley was born in [[Roxbury, Boston]], on August 23, 1834.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116140212/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf |archive-date=2014-01-16 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Langley attended [[Boston Latin School]] and graduated from [[English High School of Boston]], after which he became an assistant in the [[Harvard College Observatory]]. He then moved to a job at the [[United States Naval Academy]], ostensibly as a professor of mathematics. However, he was actually sent there to restore the Academy's small observatory. In 1867, he became the director of the [[Allegheny Observatory]] and a professor of astronomy at the [[University of Pittsburgh]] (then known as the [[Western University of Pennsylvania]]), a post he kept until 1891 even while he became the third Secretary of the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in 1887. Langley was the founder of the [[Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory]]. In 1875, he was elected as a member to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1875&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-05-05|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> In 1888 Langley was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]].<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistl American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref> In 1898, he received the [[Prix Jules Janssen]], the highest award of the [[Société astronomique de France]], the French astronomical society.