Mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics 1826-28 and the seventh Astronomer Royal 1835-81. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
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George Biddell Airy
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Philosopher and sociologist. Â Born Helsinki. Â Learnt English in order to read Darwin and others. Â Came to England in 1897 and frequently thereafter. Â Probably homosexual himself, he wrote on subjec...
Natural history collector. Born at the family seat near Manchester where he also died. His museum was at Leicester House on the northern side of Leicester Square and called the Holophusikon, or Hol...
Pioneer in the scientific study of rainfall. Born 28 Queen's Row, Pimlico. Founder of the British Rainfall Organization. Twice president of the Royal Meteorological Society. Died at home, 62 Camden...
Born Siberia. Earlier versions existed but in 1869 he published the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.
Molecular biologist. Born Francis Harry Compton Crick at Holmgarth, Holmfield Way, Weston Favell, near Northampton. He met James Watson at Cambridge in the early 1950s where they worked on the stru...
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