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Caroline Lucretia Herschel [1] (/ ˈ h ɜːr ʃ əl, ˈ h ɛər ʃ əl / HUR-shəl, HAIR-shəl, [2] German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German astronomer, [3] whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. [4]
1848 - Death of Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750) 1864 - Birth of Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926) 1868 - Birth of S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939) 1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts
Frederick William Herschel [2] [3] KH, FRS (/ ˈ h ɜːr ʃ əl / HUR-shəl; [4] German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British [5] astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel.
1750 - Birth of Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (d. 1848) 1789 - Birth of Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854) 1794 - Birth of Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881) 1846 - Birth of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927) 1851 - Birth of Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
William Herschel (1738–1822), astronomer and composer, discoverer of Uranus; Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), astronomer and singer, sister of Sir William Herschel; John Herschel (1792–1871), mathematician and astronomer, son of Sir William Herschel; Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836–1907), astronomer, grandson of Sir William Herschel
April 27 – British astronomer William Herschel publishes his first list of his discoveries, Catalogue of One Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars; two additional books are published in 1789 and 1802. [8] May 1 – Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna. May 21 – The trial in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace ends ...
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Caroline Herschel (1750–1848) – astronomer who discovered several comets. William Herschel (1738–1822) – astronomer, discoverer of Uranus and musician [100] William Lonsdale (1794–1871) – English geologist and palaeontologist. [101] Thomas Robert Malthus (1866–1934) – philosopher and economist [102]