Frank Dyson

Sir Frank Watson Dyson (born January 8, 1868 in Measham near Ashby-de-la-Zouch , Leicestershire , England , † May 25, 1939 at sea near Cape Town ) was an English astronomer .

Life

Dyson lived in Blackheath , London from 1894 to 1906 . He was from 1905 to 1910 Regius Professor of Astronomy and Astronomer Royal for Scotland and 1910-1933 Astronomer Royal and also director of the Royal Observatory . In 1928 he developed a new free pendulum clock, which made time measurement on the prime meridian at the Greenwich Observatory more precise.

In 1915 he was made a Knight Bachelor and in 1926 was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). In 1901 he was elected as a Fellow (member) in the Royal Society , which awarded him the Royal Medal in 1921 . In 1922 he was awarded the Bruce Medal and in 1925 the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society . From 1906 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , from 1914 a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris and from 1915 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . In 1918 he became a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, in 1926 of the National Academy of Sciences .

In honor of Dyson, the Dyson crater on the moon and the asteroid (1241) Dysona were named after him.

^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Frank Watson Dyson. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 23, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dyson, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dyson, Frank Watson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Measham at Ashby-de-la-Zouch , England
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1939
Place of death	at sea near Cape Town