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    Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer KCB FRS (17 May 1836 – 16 August 1920) was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen...
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    The Norman Lockyer Observatory, the Lockyer Technology Centre, and the Planetarium (jointly NLO), is a public access optical observatory 1 mile (1.6 km)...
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    large walled plain Janssen. It was named after British astrophysicist Norman Lockyer. This crater is roughly circular with a slight outward bulge along the...
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    the element, along with Norman Lockyer. Janssen recorded the helium spectral line during the solar eclipse of 1868, while Lockyer observed it from Britain...
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    Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere...
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  • physicist Norman Lockyer (1836–1920), English scientist and astronomer Paul Lockyer (1950–2011), Australian television journalist Peter Lockyer, American...
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    readers per month. Founded in autumn 1869, Nature was first circulated by Norman Lockyer and Alexander MacMillan as a public forum for scientific innovations...
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  • Norman Lockyer Island is located off the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island, and a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut....
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    Among those who extended the study of solar and stellar spectra was Norman Lockyer, who in 1868 detected radiant, as well as dark lines in solar spectra...
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  • element. The same spectral line was confirmed by the English astronomer Norman Lockyer, who thinking the element only existed in the sun, named it helium,...
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    Norman Lockyer: 516. Bibcode:1896Natur..53..516H. doi:10.1038/053516a0. Augustus Heller (2 April 1896), "Anianus Jedlik", Nature, 53 (1379), Norman Lockyer:...
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    astronomer Norman Lockyer observed a yellow line in the solar spectrum. He took the observation in West Hampstead, United Kingdom. Norman Lockyer set up an...
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  • for what is now known as the Brückner-Egeson-Lockyer cycle. William was the fifth son of Sir Norman Lockyer and his wife Winifred née James. He was educated...
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    Denmark) Houston Stewart Hyde Parker Île Marc John Barrow Margaret Nookap Norman Lockyer Patterson Philpots Pim Pioneer Princess Royal Seymour Skraeling Spit...
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    Denmark) Houston Stewart Hyde Parker Île Marc John Barrow Margaret Nookap Norman Lockyer Patterson Philpots Pim Pioneer Princess Royal Seymour Skraeling Spit...
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    stellar atmosphere. The name was suggested by the English astronomer Norman Lockyer after conducting systematic solar observations in order to distinguish...
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  • in 1900. On 23 May 1903, Thomazine married astronomer and scientist Norman Lockyer, sixteen years older than she was. The pair knew each other from before...
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    Reviews. 53: 1–75. doi:10.1021/cr60161a001. Retrieved 30 July 2022. Sir Norman Lockyer (1891). Nature. Macmillan Journals Limited. pp. 625–. Archived from...
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  • Waldeyer-Hartz postulates that the number of ova in the female is fixed. Norman Lockyer and Edward Frankland propose that the gas detected in solar observations...
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    Stonehenge, and Other British Monuments Astronomically Considered – Norman Lockyer (1906), via Project Gutenberg. Glaciers and the bluestones of Wales...
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    Heller, Augustus (April 1896). "Anianus Jedlik". Nature. 53 (1379). Norman Lockyer: 516–517. Bibcode:1896Natur..53..516H. doi:10.1038/053516a0. Blundel...
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    Brückner's who suggested 33 to 35 year cycles. William J. S. Lockyer, son of Sir Norman Lockyer, associated these cycles with that of sunspot activity. Similar...
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  • the differential nature of solar rotation 1868 — Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer discover an unidentified yellow line in solar prominence spectra and...
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    not correspond to any chemical elements then known on Earth. In 1868, Norman Lockyer hypothesized that these absorption lines were caused by a new element...
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    Saskatchewan, Canada, A 6.25" refractor known as the 'Lockyer Telescope' is in use at the Norman Lockyer Observatory in Sidmouth, Devon, UK. The lens, made...
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    Denmark) Houston Stewart Hyde Parker Île Marc John Barrow Margaret Nookap Norman Lockyer Patterson Philpots Pim Pioneer Princess Royal Seymour Skraeling Spit...
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    Arthur Brunel Chatwood. (1896). The New Photography. Downey. p. 93 Norman Lockyer. (1896). Nature. Volume 53. p. 460 "Modern psychical phenomena, recent...
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    arithmetic, in theory and practice. p. 9. Retrieved 27 January 2012. Norman Lockyer, "Nature," Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Journals Ltd., 1922. Emilio...
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    (1905). Astronomers of To-day and Their Work. Gall & Inglis. p. 62. norman lockyer biography. by Hector Macpherson, London: Gall & Inglis, 1905 A. J. Kinder...
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    Kensington photographed by scientist Sir Norman Lockyer in 1909 from a helium balloon. (This is a mirrored image of Kensington)...
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