George Biddell Airy
1801 - 1892
- Born
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27 July 1801
Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- Died
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02 January 1892
Greenwich, London
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 21/01/1836
- Fields of Interest
- Astronomy
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Unpublished letter, 'Report upon a letter addressed by the Baron de Humboldt to HRH the President of the Royal Society and communicated by HRH to the Council' from S [Samuel] Hunter Christie and G B [George Biddell] Airy to the President of the Royal Society
Creator: George Biddell Airy, Samuel Hunter Christie Reference number: AP/20/8 -
Unpublished paper, 'Explanation of the construction, positions, comparisons, and times of observation, of the meteorological instruments at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, with which the observations have been made that are contained in the sheets of meteorological observations (from 1 and 2 for each month from November 1840 to July 1841, both included)' by G B [George Biddell] Airy
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: AP/25/1 -
Paper, 'On an inequality of long period in the motion of the earth and Venus' by George Biddell Airy
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: PT/20/3 -
Paper, 'On the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames' by G B [George Biddell] Airy
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: PT/26/1 -
Paper, 'On the laws of individual tides at Southampton and at Ipswich' by G B [George Biddell] Airy
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: PT/27/6 -
Letter, correction to 'The laws of tides at Southampton and Ipswich' by G B [George Biddell] Airy to R [Richard] and J E [John Edward] Taylor
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: PT/27/6i
Referee of
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Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the state of the interior of the earth' by William Hopkins
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: RR/1/105 -
Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the state of the interior of the earth' by William Hopkins
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: RR/1/106 -
Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the state of the interior of the earth' by William Hopkins
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: RR/1/108 -
Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the theory of the astronomical refractions' by James Ivory
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: RR/1/119 -
Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Of such ellipsoids, consisting of homogeneous matter, as are capable of having the resultant of the attraction of the mass upon a particle in the surface, and a centrifugal force caused by revolving about one of the axes, made perpendicular to the surface' by James Ivory
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: RR/1/120 -
Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On certain disturbances of the compass in iron ships' by Edward Johnson
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: RR/1/123