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Born April 22, 1891 • England
Died March 18, 1989 (aged 97) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1960)
Subjects Of Study Earth’s core • cosmogony • giant planet • latitude • seismic wave • Solar System

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William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Sir George Darwin, portrait by M. Gertler, 1912; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Darwin
British astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley
English astronomer
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astronomer
John Goodricke
English astronomer
Huggins, William
William Huggins
English astronomer
John Couch Adams
British astronomer
Nevil Maskelyne, detail from an engraving by E. Scriven after a portrait by Vanderburgh.
Nevil Maskelyne
British astronomer
Edward Sabine
Edward Sabine
British astronomer
Sydney Chapman
British mathematician and physicist
John Pond
British astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Margaret Burbidge
British astronomer
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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