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Joseph Norman Lockyer

1836 - 1920

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Born

17 May 1836

Rugby, Warwickshire, England

Died

16/08/1920

Salcombe Regis, Devon

Nationality

British

Gender

Male

Date of election for Royal Society fellowship

03/06/1869

Fields of Interest

Astrophysics

Relationships

Son of Joseph Hooley Lockyer, physician of Rugby, and his wife Anne, daughter of Edward Norman of Cosford, Warwickshire. Married: 1) (1858) Winifred, daughter of William James of Trebeshon, near Abergavenny (she died 1879); 2) (1903) Thomazine Mary Young, daughter of Samuel Woolcott Browne and widow of Bernard Edward Broadhurst FRCS

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Author of

Paper, 'On the chief line of the spectrum of the nebulae [in Orion]' by J N [Joseph Norman] Lockyer
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: AP/67/3
Paper, 'Preliminary report to the Solar Physics Committee on the Sun spot observations made at Kensington [London]' by J N [Joseph Norman] Lockyer
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: PP/1/11
Paper, 'Note on the recent and coming total solar eclipses' by J [Joseph] Norman Lockyer
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: PP/2/30
Paper, 'A new form of spectroscope' by J N [Joseph Norman] Lockyer
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: PP/7/21
Paper, 'Further discussion of the Sun spot observations made at South Kensington [London]' by J [Joseph] Norman Lockyer
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: PP/10/7
Paper, 'Preliminary note on the spectra of meteorites' by Joseph Norman Lockyer
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: PP/11/5

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Referee of

Referee's report by Joseph Norman Lockyer, on an unnamed paper by Roberts
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: RR/9/395
Referee's report by Joseph Norman Lockyer, on a paper 'On hindoo [sic] astronomy' by William Brennand
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: RR/11/17
Referee's report by Joseph Norman Lockyer, on a paper 'On the simultaneity of magnetic variations at different places on occasions of magnetic disturbance, and on the relation between magnetic and earth current phenomena' by William Ellis
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: RR/11/146
Referee's report by Joseph Norman Lockyer, on a paper 'Flame spectra at high temperatures.—Part I. Oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe spectra' by Walter Noel Hartley
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: RR/11/279
Referee's report by Joseph Norman Lockyer, on two papers 'Flame spectra at high temperatures.— Part II. The spectrum of metallic manganese, of alloys of manganese, and of compounds containing that element' and 'Flame spectra at high temperatures.—Part III. The spectroscopic phenomena and thermo-chemistry the bessemer process' by Walter Noel Hartley
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: RR/12/134
Referee's report by Joseph Norman Lockyer, on a paper 'Some additional notes on the orientation of Greek temples being the result of a journey to Greece & Sicily in April & May, 1900' by Francis Cranmer Penrose
Creator: Joseph Norman Lockyer Reference number: RR/15/232