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Walter Sydney Adams was an American astronomer whose work focused on stellar spectroscopy and the physical properties of stars. He served as director of Mount Wilson Observatory and used spectroscopic observations of Sirius B to confirm its status as a white dwarf; in 1925, measurements of the star's gravitational redshift provided important evidence for the relationship between its high density and its unusual spectrum. Adams is associated with the early observational study of white dwarfs.
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