The Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose...
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appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Samuel apprenticed under Henry Featherstone from 1630 to 1637, set up shop at the sign of the Brazen Serpent...
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Chris Lintott (category Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge)
is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, and, since 2023, Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College...
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Ian Morison (category Academics of Gresham College)
British astronomer and astrophysicist who served as the 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Ian Morison was born in Felpham, England on 22 November 1943...
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Roger Tayler (category Academics of Gresham College)
Fellow of Corpus Christi College before moving to the University of Sussex in 1966. In 1969 he was appointed professor of astronomy at Gresham College...
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Michael Rowan-Robinson (category Fellows of the Institute of Physics)
as Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Rowan-Robinson was educated at Eshton Hall School and the University of Cambridge where he completed a Bachelor of Arts...
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Edmund Gunter (redirect from Gunter's line of numbers)
mathematics by Reverend Henry Briggs and eventually became a Gresham Professor of Astronomy, from 1619 until his death. Gunter was born in Hertfordshire...
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the formation of the Royal Society. Early distinguished Gresham College professors included Christopher Wren, who lectured on astronomy in the 17th century...
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Colin Pillinger (redirect from Professor Pillinger)
Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, a position once held by Sir Christopher Wren. He said of his appointment as professor of astronomy:...
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John Machin (category Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
John Machin (bapt. c. 1686 – June 9, 1751) was a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. He is best known for developing a quickly converging...
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John D. Barrow (category Academics of Gresham College)
From 2003 to 2007 he was Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London, and he was appointed as Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2008 to 2011;...
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William Herbert Steavenson (category Academics of Gresham College)
do so in the twentieth century. He was also Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, and president of the British Astronomical Association from 1926...
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Christopher Wren (category Savilian Professors of Astronomy)
fellow of All Souls ended when Wren was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London, in 1657. He was there provided with a set of rooms...
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Joseph Silk (category Savilian Professors of Astronomy)
College Park, MD USA. 2021 (accessed 21 June 2024) "Gresham Professor of Astronomy" on the Gresham College website (accessed 27 July 2015) "Four Johns...
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Sir Thomas Gresham the Elder (/ˈɡrɛʃəm/; c. 1519 – 21 November 1579) was an English merchant and financier who acted on behalf of King Edward VI (1547–1553)...
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In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast...
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Robert Moray (category Alumni of the University of St Andrews)
November 1660, at the premises of Gresham College on Bishopsgate, at which Christopher Wren, Gresham Professor of Astronomy, delivered a lecture. The twelve...
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Prize in 2006. He once held the position of Gresham Professor of Astronomy as well as Gresham Professor of Geometry. Henri Fontaine (1924–2020): French...
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Frank Close (category Academics of Gresham College)
on the council of the Royal Institution from 1997 to 1999. From 2000 to 2003 he gave public lectures as professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London...
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The position of Savilian Professor of Astronomy was established at the University of Oxford in 1619. It was founded (at the same time as the Savilian...
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Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (category Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
daughter of the Rev. Joseph Pullen, formerly fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Gresham professor of astronomy. He left a family of two...
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Andrew Fabian (category Academics of Gresham College)
Fabian was Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, a position in which he delivered free public lectures within the City of London between...
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Prime Minister of Malta Ian Morison FRAS, 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy David Naylor, medical researcher Edward Max Nicholson, founder of the World Wildlife...
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John Greaves (category Savilian Professors of Astronomy)
a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza. He was Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford...
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William Romaine (category Academics of Gresham College)
(1775) Gresham Professor of Astronomy Cadogan 1796, p. 1 "William Romaine (1714-95)". The Methodist Archives Biographical Index. The University of Manchester...
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Carolin Crawford (category Academics of Gresham College)
Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy, which she first took on in 2005. She served as Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College from 2011 to 2015...
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Samuel Arthur Saunder (category Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society)
of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 1908 he was made Gresham Professor of Astronomy giving public lectures on the subject. Saunder was one of the...
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Robert Payne (natural philosopher) (category Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford)
for Gresham Professor of Astronomy in 1626. In 1630 Payne entered the Cavendish orbit with his nomination as rector of Tormarton by the Earl of Newcastle...
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refer to: Thomas Williams, Gresham Professor of Astronomy Thomas Desmond Williams (1921–1987), Irish academic and Professor of Modern History at University...
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The Gresham College group was a loose collection of scientists in England of the 1640s and 1650s, a precursor to the Royal Society of London. Within a...
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