Name: Alexa airy, sir george biddell
Country or region: United Kingdom
Subject: astronomer and mathematician
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Airy (airy, sir george biddell) British astronomer and mathematician. July 27, 1801 Born in Alnwick, Northumberland; January 2, 1892 and died in Greenwich (now part of London.) Allison graduated from Cambridge in 1823, his first in math class ranking. He taught mathematics and astronomy in the school, and in 1835 was appointed the seventh Astronomer Royal. He maintained this position for 45 years until retirement in 1881 until the age of eighty. He used sophisticated instruments and equipment to modernize Greenwich Observatory, Germany, it increased to the level of the Observatory. Since the heyday of Herschel * After Observatory in Germany Bessel * Gaussian * and some people under the leadership of this has been far ahead of the UK Observatory. Airy also organized and sorted out has been shelved and the information covered with dust. He is conceited and jealous but narrow vision, he ruled like a little tyrant Observatory, but while filling the Observatory which is full of busy life. A strange fate always haunted Airy, so he is always in mind for the world because of failure. For example, he vigorously and firmly oppose the Faraday * questions about "power line" ideas, and later finally came to understand this intuitively but Faraday established at Maxwell * based on solid mathematics. In the j · c · Adams * dedicated to the discovery of Neptune and the scene ultimately caused the failure, the Airy played a negative role. In fact, Airy as a lost opportunity to discover the planet's people. Than any of his actual achievements made more famous, these achievements will enable him to reason that when collusion was knighted in 1872. However, the nineteenth century, seventies and eighties he failed to worry the people of the original units. With ten name century that two transit of Venus (1874 and 1882, as the surface of Venus across the sun) coming, Eli decided to organize a large expedition to observations with unprecedented accuracy to the heavens. In this way he hopes to obtain a high precision measurement scale solar-yi, the accuracy is by the recent death of the Encke * The measurement accuracy is also high, really spare no effort. Airy annoying that the spirit of the culmination of a thorough implementation of the. He personally trained observers, and even produced a model for the transit of Venus, so that all actions can mimic in a prior exercise has been very skilled. Expedition failed because the atmosphere of Venus made it with the Japanese round of the tangent point can not be determined accurately. * If you listen to the views of the Caribbean, he will get better results; the Caribbean had not presented with the 1872 proposal, as the round face of the asteroid can be seen to measure, as the expiration date. Half a century later, another Royal Astronomical have h · Spencer, Jones, * the adoption of the proposal, and to obtain fruitful results. In all fairness, the Airy must affirm that in his time has not a known asteroid away from Earth near enough to the precision necessary for people to _set_ their parallax. Very unique, he is one with its own health-related matters have been successful. In 1825, he first designed the lens to correct astigmatism vision glasses, his own eyes is to have astigmatism. |