Sydney Samuel Hough
Sydney Samuel Hough (born June 11, 1870 in Stoke Newington , † July 8, 1923 in England) was a British astronomer.
Hough attended Christ's Hospital in London and studied at St. John's College , Cambridge , of which he became a fellow. He then became David Gill's main assistant at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, of which he was director from 1907 to 1923. Hough was an excellent mathematician with little practical astronomical experience at first, but he quickly learned under Gill and continued his work on star maps (Carte du Ciel, with coordinates of over 20,000 stars).
Hough was a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1902 and first President of the Royal Society of South Africa in 1908 . Hough was mainly concerned with the theory of tides.
Web links
- Publications by SS Hough in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for SS Hough in the Astrophysics Data System
- biography
- Entry for Hough, Sydney Samuel (1870-1923) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
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| SURNAME | Hough, Sydney Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stoke Newington |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1923 |
| Place of death | England |