- The
Lowndean chair of
Astronomy and
Geometry is one of the two
major Professorships in
Astronomy (alongside the
Plumian Professorship) and a
major Professorship...
-
Thomas Lowndes (1692 – 12 May 1748) was the
founder of the
Lowndean professorship of
astronomy at
Cambridge University, England. Both his
father and mother...
- He is
Professor of
Mathematics at
Princeton University and
holds the
Lowndean Chair of
Astronomy and
Geometry at the
University of Cambridge. He studied...
-
major professorships in
Astronomy at
Cambridge University,
alongside the
Lowndean Professorship (which is now
mainly held by mathematicians). The
chair is...
- in
early 1913.
Later that year,
Robert Ball,
holder of the
theoretical Lowndean chair, also died, and
Eddington was
named the
director of the
entire Cambridge...
- the
origin of
meteor showers,
which holds to the
present day.
Adams was
Lowndean Professor in the
University of
Cambridge from 1859
until his death. He...
-
Pembroke in 1733. From 1750
until 1770 he was the
first holder of the
Lowndean Professorship of Astronomy. One of the
great characters of eighteenth-century...
- College,
Cambridge Frank Adams,
fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge,
Lowndean Professor of
Astronomy and
Geometry 1970-1989 John
Couch Adams, fellow...
- an Ice Age and in 1892 An
Atlas of Astronomy. In 1892, he was
appointed Lowndean Professor of
Astronomy and
Geometry at
Cambridge University at the same...
-
Fielden Chair at the
University of
Manchester (1964–1970), and
became Lowndean Professor of
Astronomy and
Geometry at the
University of
Cambridge (1970–1989)...
