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George Biddell Airy

1801 to 1892 5 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for George Biddell Airy across 4 places, from 1835 to 1881. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Sir George Biddell Airy (27 July 1801 to 2 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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where George Biddell Airy was documented, and when

1835year
Greenwichattested “In the same year the Duke of Northumberland presented the Cambridge observatory with a fine object-glass of 12-inch aperture, which was mounted according to Airy's designs and under his superintendence, although construction was not comp…” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
1848year
Moonattested “For this work Airy received in 1848 a testimonial from the Royal Astronomical Society, and it at once led to the discovery by Peter Andreas Hansen of two new inequalities in the moon's motion.” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
1848year
Royal Astronomical Societyattested “For this work Airy received in 1848 a testimonial from the Royal Astronomical Society, and it at once led to the discovery by Peter Andreas Hansen of two new inequalities in the moon's motion.” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
1881year
Greenwichattested “Airy retired in 1881, living with his two unmarried daughters at Croom's Hill near Greenwich.” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
1881year
Croom's Hillattested “Airy retired in 1881, living with his two unmarried daughters at Croom's Hill near Greenwich.” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy

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Places George Biddell Airy is documented in

Greenwich2 presences · 1835 to 1881Moon1 presence · 1848
Croom's Hill1 presence · 1881
Royal Astronomical Society1 presence · 1848

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1834 to 1879period
French Academymentioned “* winner of the Lalande Prize for astronomy from the French Academy of Sciences, 1834 * Elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1879.” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
1851year
Greenwichmentioned “In 1851 Airy established a new Prime Meridian at Greenwich.” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
1854year
Harton, South Shieldsmentioned “The experiments eventually took place at the Harton pit near South Shields in northern England in 1854.” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
1854year
South Shieldsmentioned “The experiments eventually took place at the Harton pit near South Shields in northern England in 1854.” source: Wikipedia: George Biddell Airy

Documented at the same place, the same year

William CrookesRoyal College of Chemistry · 1848Lola MontezRoyal College of Chemistry · 1848Princess Marie Isabelle of OrléansRoyal College of Chemistry · 1848

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