Carlyle Smith Beals

Carlyle Smith Beals ( born June 29, 1899 in Canso, Nova Scotia, † July 2, 1979 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian astronomer.

He taught in 1926/27 as a lecturer in physics at Acadia University in Wolfville. From 1927 he worked until 1946 at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Here he examined the emission lines in the spectra of certain hot stars and gas clouds in interstellar space. He also developed astronomical instruments.

In 1946 he was appointed astronomer of the Dominion in Ottawa and a study on meteorite crater in Canada. In 1964 he retired.

In 1969, the rank of Officer of the Order of Canada awarded him. In 1971 he held the Petrie Prize Lecture. The asteroid ( 3314 ) Beals Beals and the crater on the moon named after him.