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    Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl/ HUR-shəl; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 15 November 1738 – 25 August...
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    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...
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  • Michael Haydn (1737–1806) Johann Christoph Oley (1738–1789) Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738–1822) Ernst Eichner (1740–1777) Anton Zimmermann (1741–1781)...
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    Caroline Lucretia Herschel (/ˈhɜːrʃəl, ˈhɛərʃəl/ HUR-shəl, HAIR-shəl, German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German astronomer...
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    Schwarzenberg – Austrian field marshal (Schaller, 1821) 46. Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel – astronomer (Eberhard, 1816) 53. Hans Karl von Diebitsch – Russian...
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    Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864)...
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    Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (Yiddish: הערשל פײַבל גרינשפּאן; German: Hermann Grünspan; 28 March 1921 – last rumoured to be alive in 1945, declared dead in...
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    NGC 3274 is a relatively faint spiral galaxy discovered by Wilhelm Herschel in 1783, and is located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation...
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    Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (/ˈɔːlbərz/; German: [ˈɔlbɐs]; 11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German astronomer. He found a convenient method...
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    constellation Cetus. It was discovered November 28, 1785 in a sky survey by Wilhelm Herschel. It is one of the galaxies that are part of the quadruplet family HGC...
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  • Peter Henlein: Inventor of the portable watch. Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (William Herschel): Discovered the planet Uranus and infrared radiation among...
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    years. NGC 821 was discovered on September 4, 1786, by astronomer Wilhelm Herschel. List of NGC objects (1–1000) Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.;...
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    Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1984 ISSN 0232-3516 Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (Biographien hervorragender Naturwissenschaftler, Techniker und Mediziner...
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    equatorial constellation of Virgo. It was discovered April 17, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel. This galaxy is located at a distance of 57 million light years and...
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  • Heinrich Marx (born Herschel HaLevi,[inconsistent] Yiddish: הירשל הלוי; 15 April 1777 – 10 May 1838) was a German lawyer who fathered the communist philosopher...
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    S2CID 203411805. John Frederick William Herschel, A brief notice of the life, researches, and discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, London: Barclay, 1847 (on-line)...
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    approximately 130,000 ly. NGC 890 was discovered on September 13, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel. List of NGC objects (1–1000) Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.;...
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    a distance of about 214 million light-years from Earth. Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel discovered this galaxy on 9 October 1784. Three supernovae have been...
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    Herschel is a lunar impact crater located just to the north of the walled plain Ptolemaeus. Its diameter is 39 km. It was named after German-born British...
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    Wilhelm Gustloff (30 January 1895 – 4 February 1936) was a German politician and meteorologist who founded the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party/Foreign...
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  • They have revived music by less-known composers, including Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Antonio Rosetti and Anton Teyber. Composers...
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    Allies). Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi killed in 1936 by David Frankfurter Gerald Schwab (1990). The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan...
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    "Astronomical Diagrams and Constellations" (9 sliders taken from Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel's textbooks), "Views and Buildings", Ancient and Modern Costume (62...
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    4 ± 13.4 Mly (58.08 ± 4.10 Mpc). It was discovered in a sky survey by Wilhelm Herschel on September 10, 1785. Studies of NGC 788 indicate that it, while itself...
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    the Galactic Center. It was discovered by German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel on May 24, 1784, with an 18.7-inch mirror telescope, who described...
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    Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his...
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    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...
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    NGC 470 (category Discoveries by William Herschel)
    approximately 91 million lightyears from Earth, it was discovered by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in 1784. The galaxy also weakly interacts with NGC 474. NGC 470 with...
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    in 1913, Peter Read (Translator), University of California Press, 2004 Herschel Browning Chipp, Peter Selz, Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists...
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    Johann Wilhelm Ritter (16 December 1776 – 23 January 1810) was a German chemist, physicist and philosopher. He was born in Samitz (Zamienice) near Haynau...
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