George Biddell Airy

English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)

1801 – 1892 ·

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Born: 27 July 1801, Alnwick
Died: 2 January 1892, Greenwich
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Native language: English
Educated at: Colchester Royal Grammar School, Trinity College
Field of work: astronomy
Position held: Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
Employer: University of Cambridge, Royal Observatory
Member of: Royal Society, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Irish Academy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Royal Medal, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Lalande Prize, Albert Medal, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Buried at: Church of St Mary
archives at: National Library of Wales
child: Wilfrid Airy, Hubert Airy, Christabel Airy, Hilda Routh
described by source: Dictionary of National Biography, first supplement, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, Popular Science, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Library of the World's Best Literature, History of strength of materials : with a brief account of the history of theory of elasticity and theory of structures
family name: Airy
given name: George
honorific prefix: Sir
instance of: human
languages spoken, written or signed: English
name in native language: George Biddell Airy
relative: George Arthur Biddell, Edward Routh
sex or gender: male
topic's main category: Category:George Biddell Airy
writing language: English

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Sir George Biddell Airy (; 27 July 1801 – 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. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.

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