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    John Lee LL.D, FRS (28 April 1783 – 25 February 1866), born John Fiott, was an English philanthropist, astronomer, mathematician, antiquarian, barrister...
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  • John Lee may refer to: John Lee (astronomer) (1783–1866), president of the Royal Astronomical Society John Lee (university principal) (1779–1859), University...
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    "Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee". In Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R. (eds.). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer...
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    1839–41, architect: John Brown) is the burial place of three Astronomers Royal: Edmond Halley, Nathaniel Bliss and John Pond. The Manor of Lee was a historic...
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  • Richard Lee Walker Jr. (March 9, 1938 – March 30, 2005) was an American astronomer known for his observations of double stars and for discovering Epimetheus...
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    John Lowry Dobson (14 September 1915 – 15 January 2014) was an American amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost...
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    John Gatenby Bolton FAA FRS CBE (5 June 1922 – 6 July 1993) was a British-Australian astronomer who was fundamental to the development of radio astronomy...
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  • of the following fields: Astronomers and Institutions: links to the corresponding article about the discovering astronomer or institution on Wikipedia...
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    British astronomer John Lee. To the east is the crater Vitello, and just to the north is the lava-flooded crater Doppelmayer. The rim of Lee is worn and...
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    the Universe Needs More Black and Latino Astronomers". Smithsonian. Retrieved May 3, 2019. "Harvard Astronomer, Institute Offer Support for Students of...
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    (including five Archbishops of Canterbury), the industrialist John Wynne, the astronomer John Lee, media figures, such as Huw Thomas, and members of the Bar...
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  • government John Lee Hooker (1912–2001), American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist John Lee Hooker Jr. (born 1952), American blues musician John Daggett...
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  • John Somer, also known as John Semur or John Somerarius, (fl. 1380) was an English Franciscan friar and astronomer. Somer belonged to the Franciscan house...
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  • John Pond FRS (1767 – 7 September 1836) was an English astronomer who became the sixth Astronomer Royal, serving from 1811 to 1835. Pond was born in London...
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  • Ernest Lawrence Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. Henrietta Swan Leavitt John Lee (astronomer) Pierre Charles Lemonnier Nicole-Reine Lepaute Jean Antoine Letronne...
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  • Wallace John Eckert (June 19, 1902 – August 24, 1971) was an American astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia...
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    English physician John Roosevelt Boettiger, grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt Sir John Carroll (astronomer) (1899–1974), British astronomer John Alexander Carroll...
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    John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley FRS FRAS (5 August 1798 – 27 October 1867) was an English astronomer. Wrottesley was the son of John Wrottesley,...
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    Edmond Halley (category 18th-century British astronomers)
    1741]) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. From...
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    Baldwin and astronomer Sir William Herschel. He was the nephew of astronomer Caroline Herschel. He studied shortly at Eton College and St John's College,...
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    FRAS (3/4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) was an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College...
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    of the Zodiac (1995). In January 2011, a statement by Parke Kunkle, an astronomer at the Minnesota Planetarium Society, repeated the idea of "the 13th zodiac...
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    prodigious powers of mental arithmetic, also known as mental calculators. Astronomers in Renaissance times used that term about as often as they called themselves...
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  • The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy. They may have...
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    appointment to become Lord Privy Seal, a post he held until 1765. An amateur astronomer, he built a private observatory at his residence, Blenheim Palace. He...
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    2006). "Perhaps 'Saint John Paul the Great?'". NBC News. Retrieved 1 January 2009. "The Religion of Galileo Galilei, Astronomer and Scientist". Adherents...
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    Ptolemy (redirect from Astronomer Ptolemy)
    Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. 100 – c. 170 AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific...
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  • John Carroll may refer to: Sir John Carroll (astronomer) (1899–1974), British astronomer John Alexander Carroll (died 2000), American history professor...
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  • of the earthquake in Archaea to be exact. Heinrich Kreutz was a German astronomer, who claimed that the orbits of several sungrazing comets were related...
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  • Mott T. Greene, historian of science James E. Gunn, astronomer Ramón A. Gutiérrez, historian John J. Hopfield, physicist and biologist Béla Julesz, psychologist...
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