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''Not to be confused with William Sampson.'' William Byars Samson (born 1943 in Forfar) is a Scottish astronomer, academic, computer scientist and a researcher in the fields of Astronomy, Databases, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life. Will Samson graduated with a degree in mathematics from University of St. Andrews in 1966. He earned his PhD in Astronomy in 1971 from the University of Edinburgh. In 1976, Samson went on to study at Heriot-Watt University where he obtained his MSc in Computer Science.”〔Sampson, William, Milestones: Talks at Mills Observatory, March 2007〕 ==Early years== William Samson's earliest fascination with the skies came when he was seven years old and his mother took him outside to point out great winter constellations like the Plough and Orion. Another inspiration was his music teacher at Forfar Academy, Willie Bernard, who took the class on a trip to the Mills Observatory. "He did that when he got fed up trying to teach us to sing."〔Alexander, Michael, Out of This World, Weekend Courier, The Courier and Adevertiser, February 17, 2007〕 Bill then aged 12 went back home with great fascination of the celestial constellations and built his first telescope using old spectacle lenses scrounged from an optician in Forfar, that he put into a cardboard tube. According to Samson, “It wasn’t wonderful, but good enough to see craters on the moon.”〔Alexander, Michael, Out of This World, Weekend Courier, The Courier and Advertiser, February 17, 2007〕 He then went on to build his second and third telescopes from kits. The fourth one he built from scratch by grinding a disc of plate glass to make a mirror. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Samson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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