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Thomas Lowndes (astronomer) Thomas Lowndes (1692 – 12 May 1748) was the founder of the Lowndean professorship of astronomy at Cambridge University, England. Both his father and mother were Cheshire landowners. In 1725 he was appointed provost marshal of South Carolina, a post he preferred to hold by deputy. In 1727 Lowndes claimed to have ...
1 Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh. Thomas Henderson FRSE FRS FRAS (28 December 1798 – 23 November 1844) was a Scottish astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star, and for being the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
William Cary (instrument maker) Edward Marmaduke Clarke. Benjamin Cole (instrument maker) Thomas Cooke (scientific instrument maker) Roger Cotes. John Coventry (1735-1812) William Crookes. John Cuff (optician) Edmund Culpeper.
Thomas Richard Marsh (1961–2022) was a British astronomer and astrophysicist. His research topics included the accretion and evolution of binary star systems. [1] He was awarded the Herschel Medal in 2018 for his development of doppler tomography which he used to study compact binary stars .
Thomas Cooke was born in Allerthorpe, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of James Cook (a shoemaker). [1] [3] [4] [5] His formal education consisted of two years at an elementary school (possibly the school of John Whitaker, also of Allerthorpe), [3] but he continued learning after this and he taught himself navigation and astronomy with the intention of becoming a sailor.
Thomas Jefferson Jackson ( T. J. J.) See (February 19, 1866 – July 4, 1962) was an American astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by plagiarism and conflict, including his attacks on relativity.
Thomas Street (also spelled Streete) (1621–1689) was an English astronomer, known for his writings on celestial motions. He has sometimes been confused with Thomas Street the judge, who lived from 1626 to 1696. The crater Street on the Moon is named after him. Thomas Street (astronomer) - WikiMili,
