John Reynolds (astronomer)

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John Henry Reynolds (1874-1949)

John Henry Reynolds ( 1874 - 1949 ) was a British astronomer and between 1935-1937 President of the Royal Astronomical Society . His field of work was the classification of stars.

John Reynolds was the son of Alfred John Reynolds, temporarily Lord Mayor of Birmingham and owner of a company that made nails using a cutting process . An amateur, he was elected a member of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1899, at the age of 25 . In 1907 he financed the construction of the 30-inch mirror telescope in Helwan , Egypt , the first larger telescope for studying the southern sky. He also built a 28-inch telescope himself in Birmingham.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Martin Johnson: John Henry Reynolds . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 110, No. 2, 1950, pp. 131-133. bibcode : 1950MNRAS.110..131J . doi : 10.1093 / mnras / 110.2.131a . Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ Harold Knox-Shaw: John Henry Reynolds . In: The Observatory . 70, No. 854, 1950, pp. 30-31. bibcode : 1950Obs .... 70 ... 30. . Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  3. ^ Past RAS Presidents . Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
  4. ↑ Local History . In: Mayors of Birmingham 1838–1895. Lord Mayors 1896-1975 . Newman University College. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
  5. ^ David Block, Ken Freeman: Shrouds of the night: masks of the Milky Way and our awesome new view of galaxies . Springer Science + Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-78974-3 , p. 185.
  6. ^ David Block, Ken Freeman: Shrouds of the night: masks of the Milky Way and our awesome new view of galaxies . Springer Science + Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-78974-3 , p. 187.
  7. ^ David Block, Ken Freeman: Shrouds of the night: masks of the Milky Way and our awesome new view of galaxies . Springer Science + Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-78974-3 , p. 211.
personal data
SURNAME Reynolds, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reynolds, John Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British astronomer and President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1935 to 1937
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
DATE OF DEATH 1949