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George Biddell Airy was born on July 27, 1801 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England and died on January 2, 1892 in Greenwich, London, England at age 90.

Short Biography:

At Greenwich he installed a transit telescope for accurately measuring time by the stars. The position of this instrument defines the Greenwich meridian, internationally accepted as the line of zero longitude in 1884.

Airy was made director of the Cambridge University Observatory in 1828 and became the seventh Astronomer read more...

Tags: mathematician, astronomer, arts

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