Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer

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Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer: Facts & Related Content

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Born	May 17, 1836 • Rugby • England
Died	August 16, 1920 (aged 84) • Salcombe Regis • England
Founder	“Nature”
Subjects Of Study	chromosphere • helium • solar prominence • spectroscopy • sunspot

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Richard Christopher Carrington

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Charles Dickens

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Walter Bagehot

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Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet

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Sir Bernard Lovell

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Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

Martin Rees

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Margaret Burbidge

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James Joseph Sylvester

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Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham

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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).

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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.

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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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