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George H. Darwin was born 9 July 1845 at Down House, Kent, the fifth child of biologist Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin.. From the age of 11 he studied under Charles Pritchard at Clapham Grammar School, and entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1863, though he soon moved to Trinity College, [2] where his tutor was Edward John Routh.
Charles Robert Darwin (/ ˈ d ɑːr w ɪ n / [5] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [6] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
Charles Galton Darwin 1887–1962 was the son of George Howard Darwin and was a noted physicist of the age, and Director of the National Physics Laboratory. His son George Pember Darwin (1928–2001) married Angela Huxley, great-granddaughter of Thomas Henry Huxley.
The body of Lonesome George was frozen and shipped to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to be preserved by taxidermists. [25] The preservation work was carried out by the museum's taxidermist George Dante, with input from scientists. [26] Taxidermied Lonesome George on display at the Charles Darwin Research Station.
Martha Haskins, Lady Darwin (née du Puy; July 27, 1861 - 6 February 1947), known as Maud Darwin, was an American socialite and the wife of the English Cambridge University astronomer Sir George Darwin.
The George Darwin Lectureship is an award granted by the Royal Astronomical Society to a 'distinguished and eloquent speaker' on the subject of Astronomy including astrochemistry, astrobiology and astroparticle physics. [1] The award is named after the astronomer George Darwin and has been given annually since 1984.
Darwin's symbols for the tidal harmonic constituents are still used, for example: M: moon/lunar; S: sun/solar; K: moon-sun/lunisolar. Darwin's harmonic developments of the tide-generating forces were later improved when A.T. Doodson , applying the lunar theory of E.W. Brown , [ 45 ] developed the tide-generating potential (TGP) in harmonic form ...
Darwin's theory of evolution is based on key facts and the inferences drawn from them, which biologist Ernst Mayr summarised as follows: [6] Every species is fertile enough that if all offspring survived to reproduce, the population would grow (fact). Despite periodic fluctuations, populations remain roughly the same size (fact).