HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN (FREDERICK WILLIAM), 1ST BARONET


Meaning of HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN (FREDERICK WILLIAM), 1ST BARONET in English

born March 7, 1792, Slough, Buckinghamshire, Eng. died May 11, 1871, Collingwood, Kent English astronomer and successor to his father, Sir William Herschel, in the field of stellar and nebular observation and discovery.

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