• Thumbnail for Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet
    Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (9 January 1833 – 24 October 1917) was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification...
    6 KB (454 words) - 08:38, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Herschel
    Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl, ˈhɛər-/; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician...
    44 KB (4,139 words) - 22:59, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Herschel
    Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl/ HUR-shəl; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 15 November 1738 – 25 August...
    78 KB (8,486 words) - 22:55, 26 October 2024
  • grandson of Sir William Herschel William James Herschel (1833–1917), Indian Civil Service officer, grandson of Sir William Herschel John Herschel the Younger...
    7 KB (884 words) - 22:07, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Margaret Herschel
    Hamilton-Gordon Isabella Herschel (5 June 1831 – 1893) Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Bt. (9 January 1833 – 1917), Margaret Louisa Herschel (1834–1861), an accomplished...
    10 KB (945 words) - 22:50, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herschel family
    grandson of Sir William Herschel William James Herschel (1833–1917), Pioneer of fingerprinting, grandson of Sir William Herschel John Herschel the Younger...
    1 KB (107 words) - 19:20, 6 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fingerprint
    Leopold Voss. William J Herschel (1916). The Origin of Finger-Printing. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1104662257. William James Herschel (November 25...
    111 KB (12,061 words) - 01:34, 31 October 2024
  • The Herschel 400 catalogue is a subset of William Herschel's original Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, selected by Brenda F. Guzman (Branchett)...
    91 KB (395 words) - 23:30, 5 March 2024
  • did not occur until the mid-19th century. In roughly 1859, Sir William James Herschel discovered that fingerprints remain stable over time and are unique...
    11 KB (1,394 words) - 18:08, 3 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Herschel baronets
    Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (1792–1871) Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917) Rev. Sir John Frederick Charles Herschel, F.R.A.S...
    2 KB (128 words) - 18:07, 23 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Henry Faulds
    criminals by their fingerprints had been introduced in the 1860s by Sir William James Herschel in India, and their potential use in forensic work was first proposed...
    9 KB (1,072 words) - 15:17, 30 August 2024
  • Stewart Herschel, DCL, FRS (5 February 1836 – 18 June 1907) was a British astronomer. Although much less well known than his grandfather William Herschel or...
    12 KB (1,276 words) - 08:19, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herschel Space Observatory
    infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021. Herschel carries a 3.5-metre (11.5 ft) mirror and instruments...
    40 KB (3,746 words) - 18:15, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herschel Museum of Astronomy
    was formerly the home of William Herschel and his sister Caroline. The museum is situated in the former home of the Herschels at 19 New King Street (south...
    24 KB (2,019 words) - 18:20, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Galton
    criminals by their fingerprints had been introduced in the 1860s by Sir William James Herschel in India, and their potential use in forensic work was first proposed...
    73 KB (8,715 words) - 01:45, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for King William Island
    visited, or spent their winters on, King William Island. The island is separated from the Boothia Peninsula by the James Ross Strait to the northeast, and the...
    18 KB (1,329 words) - 10:24, 23 October 2024
  • William Herschel Bobo (January 16, 1896 – February 18, 1975) was a minor league baseball player and an American football, basketball, and baseball coach...
    7 KB (179 words) - 00:57, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for New General Catalogue
    expanded and consolidated the cataloguing work of William and Caroline Herschel, and John Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars...
    13 KB (1,534 words) - 17:10, 7 September 2024
  • Lloyd's of London. July 28 – In Bengal, India, British officer William James Herschel uses the hand impression of Rajyadhar Konai, as a contract fingerprint...
    27 KB (2,951 words) - 12:20, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 40-foot telescope
    William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory...
    15 KB (1,847 words) - 19:49, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William de Wiveleslie Abney
    Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney KCB FRS FRSE (24 July 1843 – 3 December 1920) was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer. Abney was born in...
    11 KB (1,105 words) - 10:42, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herschel V. Johnson
    Herschel Vespasian Johnson (September 18, 1812 – August 16, 1880) was an American politician. He was the 41st Governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and...
    11 KB (757 words) - 15:54, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Cotton (civil servant)
    posting was at Midnapore, where his immediate superior was Sir William James Herschel, then the local magistrate. His eldest son Evan was born in that...
    11 KB (1,005 words) - 15:21, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herschel Johnson
    Herschel Vespasian Johnson (May 3, 1894 – April 16, 1966) was a U.S. diplomat from North Carolina. He was the great-grandson of Governor Herschel Vespasian...
    5 KB (222 words) - 01:51, 29 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Herschel, Saskatchewan
    Herschel is a special service area in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is the seat of the Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318 and held...
    25 KB (2,391 words) - 22:34, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herschel Island
    the name Herschel, of which three persons are notable for their scientific accomplishments: Sir William Herschel, his sister Caroline Herschel, and his...
    23 KB (2,902 words) - 17:00, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herschel Evans
    Herschel "Tex" Evans (9 March 1909 – 9 February 1939) was an American tenor saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. He also worked with...
    15 KB (1,558 words) - 09:40, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Count Basie
    William James "Count" Basie (/ˈbeɪsi/; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he...
    52 KB (6,161 words) - 19:25, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 2110
    NGC 2110 (category Discoveries by William Herschel)
    NGC 2110 is about 90,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on October 5, 1785. It is a Seyfert galaxy. NGC 2110 has been categorised...
    14 KB (1,580 words) - 14:22, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 246
    NGC 246 (category Discoveries by William Herschel)
    catalogs, as summarized by the SIMBAD database. NGC 246 was discovered by William Herschel in 1785. The nebula is roughly 1,600 light-years away. NGC 246's central...
    4 KB (411 words) - 12:10, 18 July 2024