astronomer

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A museum has been given a grant to fund a project about a Bradford-born astronomer who was influenced by the work of medieval Islamic scientists.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

"Several scenarios had been proposed to explain this emission," explains Yaël Nazé, an astronomer at ULiège.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

The calculation was created in the 1800s by a Belgian astronomer, and then a doctor in the U.S. renamed it the body mass index in the 1970s.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

The author documents Tennyson’s reaction to books by the geologist Charles Lyell, the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and the astronomer John Herschel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

This was in fact the method used by a Greek astronomer, Hipparchus of Nicaea, in 150 B.C. to work out the Moon’s distance from Earth.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson