Edward Sabine
Sir Edward Sabine (born October 14, 1788 in Dublin , Ireland , † June 26, 1883 in Richmond upon Thames , Surrey ) was an Irish astronomer.
Life
Edward Sabine was the son of Joseph Sabine. His eldest brother was also called Joseph Sabine (1770–1837). He was a tax officer and botanist.
Edward Sabine went to the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich in 1803 .
Sabine took part in several expeditions, including the Northwest Passage Expedition in 1818 by John Ross and James Clark Ross and the expedition (1819-1820) by William Edward Parry, which was also valid for the Northwest Passage . On an expedition in 1822 he determined the length of the pendulum seconds at various points in the Atlantic Ocean . He also carried out extensive measurements of the earth's magnetic field . In 1852 he discovered the connection between sunspots and fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field.
From 1845 Sabine was foreign secretary, from 1850 treasurer and from 1861 to 1871 president of the Royal Society. He was also a member of the Weights and Measures Commission from 1868 to 1877.
Sabine was a founding member of the Athenaeum Club, founded in 1823 .
Honors
In 1818 he was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society , which awarded him the Copley Medal in 1821 and the Royal Medal in 1849 . In 1823 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1826 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . In 1855 he also became an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Sabine was President of the Royal Society from 1861 to 1871. In 1865 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1867 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1875 to the Académie des sciences . In 1869 he received the Bathorden second class ( Knight Commander ). He was also honored on August 17, 1857 with the Prussian order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts .
In 1819 his brother named the swallow gull (Xema sabini) after him. An island off the east coast of Greenland , on which Sabine carried out pendulum tests in 1823, has been called Sabine Island since 1869 . He is also the namesake of the Sabine Land on Svalbard. In 1935 the lunar crater Sabine was named after him. Mount Sabine and the Sabine Glacier in Antarctica also bear his name .
swell
- Entry to Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788–1883) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
Web links
- Edward Sabine . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
- Publications by E. Sabine in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for E. Sabine in the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 208.
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 5, 2020 .
- ↑ The Order pour le merite for science and the arts. The members of the order. Volume I (1842-1881), Gebr. Mann-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 202.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sabine, Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1883 |
| Place of death | Richmond upon Thames , Surrey |