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.
swell
- Entry to Dyson; Sir; Frank Watson (1868–1939) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Frank Watson Dyson. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 23, 2015 .
Web links
- BruceMedalist: FrankDyson (Eng.)
- Publications by FW Dyson in the Astrophysics Data System
- Laudation and obituaries for FW Dyson in the Astrophysics Data System
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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 |