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Herschel, William, 1738-1822 (59)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx1j8c (person)

William Herschel(b. November 15, 1738, Hannover, Germany–d. August 25, 1822, Slough, England) was a British astronomer and composer, and brother of fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel, with whom he worked. Herschel constructed his first large telescope in 1774, after which he spent nine years carrying out sky surveys to investigate double stars. Herschel published catalogues of nebulae in 1802 (2,500 objects) and in 1820 (5,000 objects). In the course of an observation on 13 March 1781, he...

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Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 (123)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v1261m (person)

Engineer and Astronomer. Fellow of the Royal Society. Astronomer. Fellow of the Royal Society. John F. W. Herschel was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, who also did valuable botanical work. His father was astronomer Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel. His son, Sir William James Herschel was a British officer in India who is credited with being the first European to note the value of fingerp...

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Herschel, William James (8)

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William Herschel (1833-1917) was educated at Clapham Grammar School and the East India Company's college at Haileybury. His later career took him to India, where, as a magistrate in Hooghly, he instituted the first known system of fingerprinting in 1877-8. 1866-1871 magistrate of Midnapore; 1871-1872 district judge of Dinajpur; 1872-1874 district judge of Nadia; 1874-1875 commissioner of Cooch Behar; 1875-1877 magistrate of Shahabad; 1872-1878 magistrate of...

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Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1st Baronet, astronomer (29)

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Epithet: astronomer Title: 1st Baronet

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Herschel, Frederick William (3)

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Herschel, Sir William, 1738-1822, (4)

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Herschel, William formerly Friedrich Wilhelm, Sir, composer and astronomer (8)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w630189g (person)

Epithet: composer and astronomer

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Fenley, William Herschel, 1876- (2)

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Sir John Frederick William Herschel (2)

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John Frederick William Herschel was born in Slough, England on 7 March 1792, the son of the renowned astronomer, William Herschel. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge and on graduation in 1813, was elected to fellowships at St. John's and the Royal Society of London. The following year he entered the legal profession as a student but gave up his training after eighteen months. He began to undertake work in chemistry and astronomy, taking an active part in the foundation of the Royal A...

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Hughes, William Herschel (1)

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