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  • Thumbnail for William Herschel
    Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl/; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer...
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    Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl, ˈhɛər-/; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician...
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    2023. "Isabella Herschel; Maria Sophia Hardcastle (née Herschel); Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk...
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    Cambridge. She was the child of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, and the grandchild of William Herschel. She wrote a family history of the famous...
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  • was the son of Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet, and grandson of William Herschel. Herschel was born in Claremont, a suburb of Cape Town in the British Cape...
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    Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (27 January 1773 – 21 April 1843), was the sixth son and ninth child of King George III and his queen consort...
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  • Stewart Herschel, DCL, FRS (5 February 1836 – 18 June 1907) was a British astronomer. Although much less well known than his grandfather William Herschel or...
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    John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (1792–1871) Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917) Rev. Sir John Frederick Charles Herschel, F...
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  • Sir John Frederick William" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). pp. 393–395. Clerke, Agnes Mary; Pritchard, Charles (1911). "Herschel, Sir Frederick...
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    by Frederick Cook. Parker Pass in Denali National Park is named after him. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Herschel Clifford Parker. "Herschel Clifford...
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    John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third...
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    Herschel Vespasian Johnson (May 3, 1894 – April 16, 1966) was a U.S. diplomat from North Carolina. He was the great-grandson of Governor Herschel Vespasian...
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  • Thumbnail for William de Wiveleslie Abney
    Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney KCB FRS FRSE (24 July 1843 – 3 December 1920) was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer. Abney was born in...
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  • Herschel is a special service area in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is the seat of the Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318 and held...
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    Eli Herschel Wallach (/wɔːlək/; December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City. Known for his character...
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    George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820...
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    NGC 2420 (category Discoveries by William Herschel)
    an open cluster in the constellation Gemini. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1783. The cluster is about two billion years old and it is located...
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    first full term in office, defeating Republican former football player Herschel Walker. Under Georgia's two-round system, Warnock was re-elected in a runoff...
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    the recommendation of Pierre Simon Laplace; the post went to William Wallace. With Herschel, Babbage worked on the electrodynamics of Arago's rotations...
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  • Russian System of Magnetic and Meteorological Observation; John Frederick William Herschel, committee chairman for the conference; Wolfgang Sartorius von...
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