Joseph Thomas Ward (25 January 1862 – 4 January 1927) was a New Zealand astronomer and telescope maker. Born in England, he migrated to New Zealand circa...
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Joseph Ward (Beghé), a 1963 marble sculpture Joseph Ward (astronomer) (1862–1927), New Zealand farmworker, bookseller and astronomer Joseph Ward (fencer)...
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4 January Herbert Drewitt, World War I flying ace (born 1895) Joseph Ward, astronomer (born 1862) 13 January Frank S. Anthony, author (born 1891) John...
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Hermann Joseph Klein (14 September 1844 – 1 July 1914) was a German astronomer, author and professor. Born in Cologne, Germany on 14 September 1844, he...
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ultimately self-destructive. His parents, Joseph and Ruth Ward, moved to Seattle following World War II. Ward grew up in the Seward Park neighborhood of...
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William Huggins (category 19th-century British astronomers)
William Huggins OM KCB FRS (7 February 1824 – 12 May 1910) was a British astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together...
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Polish astronomer) 11762 Vogel (Hermann Carl Vogel) 12621 Alsufi (Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi / Azophi, Persian astronomer) 12742 Delisle (Joseph-Nicolas Delisle)...
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John Flamsteed (category 17th-century English astronomers)
Flamsteed FRS (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3...
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philosopher of science, and author Joseph A. Schwarcz, chemist, author, TV and radio host Garrett P. Serviss, American astronomer and science fiction writer Tali...
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observed and recorded by astronomers around the world since at least 240 BC, but it was not until 1705 that the English astronomer Edmond Halley understood...
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Hackney. It is in East London and part of the East End. There is an electoral ward called Haggerston within the borough. Haggerston historically formed part...
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Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797– May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary...
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Churchill Leonard, American politician Frederick C. Leonard, American astronomer Gary Leonard, basketball George Leonard (1923–2010), American author Glenn...
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was then surmounted by a coronet structure. James Bradley, the third Astronomer Royal, was buried in the churchyard in 1762. Minchinhampton Baptist Church...
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The minor planet 18 Melpomene was named after the muse by the British Astronomer Royal in 1852, George Biddell Airy. He chose a name representing tragedy...
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Thomas Wright (22 September 1711 – 25 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was...
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Astronomer Royal Royal Astronomer of Ireland "How We Recruit Speakers | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2024. "Pullen, Joseph (PLN826J)"...
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the Universe (2000), a book by Peter Ward, a geologist and paleontologist, and Donald E. Brownlee, an astronomer and astrobiologist, both faculty members...
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Armstrong (astronomer) (born 1958), British amateur astronomer Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), American astronaut, first man on Moon William Ward Armstrong...
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Olmec artifact (a shaped and grooved magnetic bar) in North America, astronomer John Carlson suggests that lodestone may have been used by the Olmec more...
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Farnaby. Sketches: Slimy Stuarts: Charles II tries to mediate between Royal Astronomer John Flamsteed and the ravens of the Tower of London. Tobacco is the signature...
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medieval historian Mott T. Greene, historian of science James E. Gunn, astronomer Ramón A. Gutiérrez, historian John J. Hopfield, physicist and biologist...
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German statesman, astronomer, and art collector for whom the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg is named. The success of the work elevated Joseph Geefs to the top...
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John Dee (category 16th-century English astronomers)
1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I...
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(d. 1894) 1860 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (d. 1937) 1864 – Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer and academic (d...
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an homage to 1950s sci-fi movies, Dr. Thomas Becker (Troy Donahue), an astronomer, is upset that graduate student Paula (Belle Avery) hasn't been to his...
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and broadcaster Colin Ward, social historian, writer and anarchist Jessie Wallace, actress, lived in Wanstead Tom Watt, actor Joseph Wilton, sculptor Wanstonia...
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Meanings of minor planet names: 4001–5000 (redirect from Thomas Flood (astronomer))
on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor...
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on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor...
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Louis Cardinals) (b. 1933) Arno Allan Penzias, 90, physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (1978) (b. 1933) Margo Smith, 84, singer ("Still...
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