Robert Ellery
Robert Lewis John Ellery (born July 14, 1827 in Cranleigh , Surrey , † January 14, 1908 in Melbourne ) was an English astronomer .
Ellery studied medicine to continue his father's trade as a surgeon . In 1851 he went to Australia because of the prospect of large gold discoveries and worked there as a practicing doctor near Melbourne for a short time. When the government of Victoria decided to set up an observatory in Williamstown , it entrusted the management to Ellery in 1853, who had learned the practice of stargazing from friends while studying at Cambridge .
The observatory began as a small house with few instruments, but was expanded to include some equipment in 1854 and moved to Melbourne in 1862. Since the work to be done was manageable, Ellery worked as a sideline supervisor in the naval depot. In 1858 he began his geodetic survey of Victoria, which could not be completed until 1874. In 1858 the government established a second observatory at Flaggstaff Hill, West Melbourne, which the German astronomer Georg von Neumayer took over.
Robert Ellery was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Victoria and its president between 1856 and 1884. He was also a member of the Melbourne University Council for many years . In 1873 he was elected a member of the Royal Society in London and in 1881 a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In 1889 he received the Clarke Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales . Robert Ellery retired in 1895.
According to him, which is Mount Ellery named in Antarctica.
Under his direction eight volumes of astronomical and 28 volumes of meteorological observations of the Melbourne observatory and two very valuable star catalogs were published .
Web links
- http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogE.html#ellery1
- Publications by RLJ Ellery in the Astrophysics Data System
- WTL: Robert Lewis John Ellery. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 69 (1909), p. 245. (Obituary, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry of Lewis John Robert Ellery at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 19, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ellery, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ellery, Robert Lewis John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cranleigh , Surrey |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1908 |
| Place of death | Melbourne |