William Christie (astronomer)
Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie (born October 1, 1845 in Woolwich , † January 22, 1922 at sea near Gibraltar ) was a British astronomer . His father was the mathematician and naturalist Samuel Hunter Christie .
He studied at King's College London and Trinity College , Cambridge, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1868. He was then a fellow there. He then became Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in 1870 . Christie served as Astronomer Royal from 1881 to 1910 .
In 1881 he became a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society . In 1892 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and in 1896 of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
On November 9, 1904, he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath .
Web links
- WHM Christie's publications in the Astrophysics Data System
- Biographical information
- Entry to Christie; Sir; William Henry Mahoney (1845-1922) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- HPH: Sir WHM Cristie. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 83 (1923), p. 233. bibcode : 1923MNRAS..83..233. (Obituary, English)
- HHT: Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie. The Observatory, Vol. 45 (1922), p. 77-81. bibcode : 1922Obs .... 45 ... 77. (Obituary, English)
- FW Dyson: Sir William Christie, KCB, FRS Nature, Volume 109 (1922), Issue 2727, pp. 145-146. bibcode : 1922Natur.109..145D (obituary, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. William Henry Mahoney Christie. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 24, 2015 .
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter C. Académie des sciences, accessed on October 30, 2019 (French).
- ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England . Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 301.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christie, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Christie, Sir William Henry Mahoney (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woolwich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1922 |
| Place of death | at sea near Gibraltar |