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George Biddell Airy

Index George Biddell Airy

Sir George Biddell Airy (27 July 18012 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1826 to 1828 and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. [1]

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  1. 152 relations: Aberration (astronomy), Aether drag hypothesis, Airy (lunar crater), Airy disk, Airy function, Airy points, Airy wave theory, Airy-0, Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Alnwick, Altazimuth mount, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Anna Airy, Astronomer, Astronomer Royal, Astronomy, British Science Association, Cambridge Observatory, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Charles Babbage, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Colchester Royal Grammar School, Computer (occupation), Copley Medal, Crooms Hill, Derbyshire, Differential equation, Diffraction, Dolcoath mine, Earth, Edward Routh, Edward Sabine, English Civil War, Equatorial mount, Euler–Bernoulli beam theory, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fluid, Focal length, Focus (optics), Fracture mechanics, Francis Baily, Francis Ronalds, French Academy of Sciences, Geocentric model, Geodetic Reference System 1980, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, George Peacock, George Tomline (politician), Giovanni Battista Riccioli, ... Expand index (102 more) »

  2. Airy family
  3. Astronomers Royal
  4. Lucasian Professors of Mathematics
  5. People educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School
  6. Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy

Aberration (astronomy)

In astronomy, aberration (also referred to as astronomical aberration, stellar aberration, or velocity aberration) is a phenomenon where celestial objects exhibit an apparent motion about their true positions based on the velocity of the observer: It causes objects to appear to be displaced towards the observer's direction of motion.

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Aether drag hypothesis

In the 19th century, the theory of the luminiferous aether as the hypothetical medium for the propagation of light waves was widely discussed.

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Airy (lunar crater)

LRO WAC mosaic Oblique view from Apollo 14 Vicinity of Airy, as viewed from the Bayfordbury Observatory Airy is a lunar impact crater located in the southern highlands.

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Airy disk

In optics, the Airy disk (or Airy disc) and Airy pattern are descriptions of the best-focused spot of light that a perfect lens with a circular aperture can make, limited by the diffraction of light.

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Airy function

In the physical sciences, the Airy function (or Airy function of the first kind) is a special function named after the British astronomer George Biddell Airy (1801–1892).

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Airy points

Airy points (after George Biddell Airy) are used for precision measurement (metrology) to support a length standard in such a way as to minimise bending or drop of a horizontally supported beam.

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Airy wave theory

In fluid dynamics, Airy wave theory (often referred to as linear wave theory) gives a linearised description of the propagation of gravity waves on the surface of a homogeneous fluid layer.

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Airy-0

Airy-0 is a crater inside the larger Airy Crater on Mars, whose location historically defined the Martian prime meridian.

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Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts)

The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) was instituted in 1864 as a memorial to Prince Albert, who had been President of the Society for 18 years.

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Alnwick

Alnwick is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town.

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Altazimuth mount

An altazimuth mount or alt-azimuth mount is a simple two-axis mount for supporting and rotating an instrument about two perpendicular axes – one vertical and the other horizontal.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Anna Airy

Anna Airy (6 June 1882 – 23 October 1964) was an English oil painter, pastel artist and etcher. George Biddell Airy and Anna Airy are Airy family.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Astronomer Royal

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. George Biddell Airy and Astronomer Royal are astronomers Royal.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Cambridge Observatory

Cambridge Observatory is an astronomical observatory at the University of Cambridge in the East of England.

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Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge.

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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. George Biddell Airy and Charles Babbage are Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Lucasian Professors of Mathematics and Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Charles-Eugène Delaunay

Charles-Eugène Delaunay (9 April 1816 – 5 August 1872) was a French astronomer and mathematician. George Biddell Airy and Charles-Eugène Delaunay are Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Colchester Royal Grammar School

Colchester Royal Grammar School (CRGS) is a state-funded grammar school in Colchester, Essex. George Biddell Airy and Colchester Royal Grammar School are People educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School.

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Computer (occupation)

The term "computer", in use from the early 17th century (the first known written reference dates from 1613), meant "one who computes": a person performing mathematical calculations, before calculators became available.

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Copley Medal

The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science".

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Crooms Hill

Crooms Hill is a residential street in Greenwich in South East London.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Differential equation

In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation that relates one or more unknown functions and their derivatives.

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Diffraction

Diffraction is the interference or bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture.

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Dolcoath mine

Dolcoath mine (Bal Dorkoth) was a copper and tin mine in Camborne, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Edward Routh

Edward John Routh (20 January 18317 June 1907) was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. George Biddell Airy and Edward Routh are Airy family and senior Wranglers.

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Edward Sabine

Sir Edward Sabine (14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883) was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th president of the Royal Society. George Biddell Airy and Edward Sabine are Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, presidents of the Royal Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Lalande Prize, Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) and royal Medal winners.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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Equatorial mount

An equatorial mount is a mount for instruments that compensates for Earth's rotation by having one rotational axis, called polar axis, parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation.

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Euler–Bernoulli beam theory

Euler–Bernoulli beam theory (also known as engineer's beam theory or classical beam theory) is a simplification of the linear theory of elasticity which provides a means of calculating the load-carrying and deflection characteristics of beams.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".

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Fluid

In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that may continuously move and deform (flow) under an applied shear stress, or external force.

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Focal length

The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system's optical power.

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Focus (optics)

In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is a point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge.

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Fracture mechanics

Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials.

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Francis Baily

Francis Baily (28 April 177430 August 1844) was an English astronomer. George Biddell Airy and Francis Baily are 19th-century British astronomers, presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society and Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Francis Ronalds

Sir Francis Ronalds FRS (21 February 17888 August 1873) was an English scientist and inventor, and arguably the first electrical engineer.

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French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.

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Geocentric model

In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, often exemplified specifically by the Ptolemaic system) is a superseded description of the Universe with Earth at the center.

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Geodetic Reference System 1980

The Geodetic Reference System 1980 (GRS80) consists of a global reference ellipsoid and a normal gravity model.

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George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, (25 August 1784 – 1 January 1849) was an English Whig politician and colonial administrator.

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George Peacock

George Peacock FRS (9 April 1791 – 8 November 1858) was an English mathematician and Anglican cleric.

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George Tomline (politician)

George Tomline (3 March 1813 – 25 August 1889), referred to as Colonel Tomline, was an English politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for various constituencies. George Biddell Airy and George Tomline (politician) are 19th-century British astronomers.

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Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Giovanni Battista Riccioli, SJ (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order.

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Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society is the highest award given by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). George Biddell Airy and Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society are Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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Greenwich

Greenwich is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London.

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Harton, South Shields

Harton is a suburban area of South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England.

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Hubert Airy

Hubert Airy (June 14, 1838 – June 1, 1903) was an English physician who was the pioneer in the study of a migraine. George Biddell Airy and Hubert Airy are Airy family.

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Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland

Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland (20 April 178511 February 1847), styled Earl Percy until 1817, was a British aristocrat and Tory politician who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under the Duke of Wellington from 1829 to 1830.

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Hypergiant

A hypergiant (luminosity class 0 or Ia+) is a very rare type of star that has an extremely high luminosity, mass, size and mass loss because of its extreme stellar winds.

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IERS Reference Meridian

The IERS Reference Meridian (IRM), also called the International Reference Meridian, is the prime meridian (0° longitude) maintained by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS).

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Institution of Engineering and Technology

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution.

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James Bradley

James Bradley (September 1692 – 13 July 1762) was an English astronomer and priest who served as the third Astronomer Royal from 1742. George Biddell Airy and James Bradley are astronomers Royal and Recipients of the Copley Medal.

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James Challis

James Challis FRS (12 December 1803 – 3 December 1882) was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. George Biddell Airy and James Challis are 19th-century British astronomers, Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy and senior Wranglers.

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James South

Sir James South FRS FRSE PRAS FLS LLD (October 1785 – 19 October 1867) was a British astronomer. George Biddell Airy and James South are 19th-century British astronomers, presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and Recipients of the Lalande Prize.

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Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre

Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre (19 September 1749 – 19 August 1822) was a French mathematician, astronomer, historian of astronomy, and geodesist.

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Johann Gottfried Galle

Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. George Biddell Airy and Johann Gottfried Galle are Recipients of the Lalande Prize.

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John Couch Adams

John Couch Adams (5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. George Biddell Airy and John Couch Adams are 19th-century British astronomers, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and senior Wranglers.

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John Herschel

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work. George Biddell Airy and John Herschel are 19th-century British astronomers, presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Recipients of the Lalande Prize, Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class), royal Medal winners and senior Wranglers.

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John Pond

John Pond FRS (1767 – 7 September 1836) was an English astronomer who became the sixth Astronomer Royal, serving from 1811 to 1835. George Biddell Airy and John Pond are 19th-century British astronomers, astronomers Royal, Recipients of the Copley Medal and Recipients of the Lalande Prize.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. George Biddell Airy and Joseph Dalton Hooker are Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, presidents of the Royal Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) and royal Medal winners.

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Journal for the History of Astronomy

Journal for the History of Astronomy (JHA) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the History of Astronomy from earliest times to the present, and in history in the service of astronomy.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Kentmere

Kentmere is a valley, village and civil parish in the Lake District National Park, a few miles from Kendal in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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King's Observatory

The King's Observatory (called for many years the Kew Observatory) is a Grade I listed building in Richmond, London.

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Lalande Prize

The Lalande Prize (French: Prix Lalande also known as Lalande Medal) was an award for scientific advances in astronomy, given from 1802 until 1970 by the French Academy of Sciences. George Biddell Airy and Lalande Prize are Recipients of the Lalande Prize.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.

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Light

Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire, abbreviated Lincs, is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England.

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List of craters on Mars

This is a list of craters on Mars.

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List of craters on Mars: A–G

This is a partial list of craters on Mars.

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List of lords commissioners of the Admiralty

This is a list of lords commissioners of the Admiralty (incomplete before the Restoration, 1660).

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List of presidents of the Royal Society

The president of the Royal Society (PRS), also known as the Royal Society of London, is the elected Head of the Royal Society of London who presides over meetings of the society's council. George Biddell Airy and List of presidents of the Royal Society are presidents of the Royal Society.

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List of things named after George Airy

This is a list of things named after George Biddell Airy, a 19th-century mathematician and astronomer.

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Longitude

Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body.

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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor. George Biddell Airy and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics are Lucasian Professors of Mathematics.

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Lunar craters

Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon.

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Lunar theory

Lunar theory attempts to account for the motions of the Moon.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Meridian (astronomy)

In astronomy, the meridian is the great circle passing through the celestial poles, as well as the zenith and nadir of an observer's location.

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Meridian circle

The meridian circle is an instrument for timing of the passage of stars across the local meridian, an event known as a culmination, while at the same time measuring their angular distance from the nadir.

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Migraine

Migraine is a genetically influenced complex neurological disorder characterized by episodes of moderate-to-severe headache, most often unilateral and generally associated with nausea and light and sound sensitivity.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

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Monarchy of Denmark

The monarchy of Denmark is a constitutional institution and a historic office of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in astronomy, astrophysics and related fields.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Nathaniel Bliss

Nathaniel Bliss (28 November 1700 – 2 September 1764) was an English astronomer of the 18th century, serving as Britain's fourth Astronomer Royal between 1762 and 1764. George Biddell Airy and Nathaniel Bliss are astronomers Royal.

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Nevil Maskelyne

Nevil Maskelyne (6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal. George Biddell Airy and Nevil Maskelyne are 19th-century British astronomers, astronomers Royal and Recipients of the Copley Medal.

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North British Railway

The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Optical resolution

Optical resolution describes the ability of an imaging system to resolve detail, in the object that is being imaged.

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Orbit

In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Parallax

Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or half-angle of inclination between those two lines.

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Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

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Pendulum

A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely.

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Peter Andreas Hansen

Peter Andreas Hansen (born 8 December 1795, Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark; died 28 March 1874, Gotha, Thuringia, Germany) was a Danish-born German astronomer. George Biddell Airy and Peter Andreas Hansen are Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class).

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Planet

A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.

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Playford Hall

Playford Hall is a country house in the civil parish of Playford, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Playford, Suffolk

Playford is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in Suffolk, England, on the outskirts of Ipswich.

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Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy

The Plumian chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy is one of the major professorships in Astronomy at Cambridge University, alongside the Lowndean Professorship (which is now mainly held by mathematicians). George Biddell Airy and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy are Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy.

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Prime meridian

A prime meridian is an arbitrarily-chosen meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°.

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Rainbow

A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky.

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Refraction

In physics, refraction is the redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another.

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Relative density

Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material.

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Richard Sheepshanks

Richard Sheepshanks (30 July 1794, in Leeds – 4 August 1855, in Reading) was a British astronomer. George Biddell Airy and Richard Sheepshanks are 19th-century British astronomers.

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Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charity that encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science.

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Royal Medal

The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal and The King's Medal (depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award), is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden.

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Senior Wrangler

The Senior Wrangler is the top mathematics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in England, a position which has been described as "the greatest intellectual achievement attainable in Britain". George Biddell Airy and Senior Wrangler are senior Wranglers.

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Sir

Sir is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages.

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Sizar

At Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, a sizar is an undergraduate who receives some form of assistance such as meals, lower fees or lodging during his or her period of study, in some cases in return for doing a defined job.

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Smith's Prize

Smith's Prize was the name of each of two prizes awarded annually to two research students in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1769.

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Society for the History of Astronomy

The Society for the History of Astronomy is an organisation based in the United Kingdom that promotes research into the history of astronomy.

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Solid mechanics

Solid mechanics (also known as mechanics of solids) is the branch of continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of solid materials, especially their motion and deformation under the action of forces, temperature changes, phase changes, and other external or internal agents.

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South Shields

South Shields is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne.

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Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra.

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Stellar parallax

Stellar parallax is the apparent shift of position (parallax) of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant stars.

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Strain (mechanics)

In mechanics, strain is defined as relative deformation, compared to a position configuration.

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Stress (mechanics)

In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Sunspot

Sunspots are temporary spots on the Sun's surface that are darker than the surrounding area.

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Supergiant

Supergiants are among the most massive and most luminous stars.

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Tay Bridge disaster

The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line from Burntisland bound for its final destination of Dundee passed over it, killing everybody on board.

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Telescope

A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Thomas Bouch

Sir Thomas Bouch (25 February 1822 – 30 October 1880) was a British railway engineer.

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Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846) was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. George Biddell Airy and Thomas Clarkson are People from Suffolk Coastal (district).

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Thomas Turton

Thomas Turton (25 February 1780 – 7 January 1864) was an English academic and divine, the Bishop of Ely from 1845 to 1864. George Biddell Airy and Thomas Turton are Lucasian Professors of Mathematics and senior Wranglers.

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Transit instrument

In astronomy, a transit instrument is a small telescope with extremely precisely graduated mount used for the precise observation of star positions.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe,; 14 December 154624 October 1601), generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

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Urbain Le Verrier

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. George Biddell Airy and Urbain Le Verrier are Recipients of the Copley Medal and Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun.

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Westmorland

Westmorland (formerly also spelt WestmorelandR. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British Isles.) is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria.

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Wind wave

In fluid dynamics, a wind wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result of the wind blowing over the water's surface.

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World Geodetic System

The World Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard used in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation including GPS.

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Zenith telescope

A zenith telescope is a type of telescope that is designed to point straight up at or near the zenith.

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See also

Airy family

Astronomers Royal

Lucasian Professors of Mathematics

People educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School

Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Biddell_Airy

Also known as Airy, George Biddell, Sir, G B Airy, G. B. Airy, GB Airy, George Airy, George B. Airy, George Biddell Airy FRS, George Biddell, Sir Airy, Sir George Airy, Sir George Biddell Airy, Sir George Biddell Airy FRS.

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