# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-biddell-airy
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:06:06.495Z

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name: "George Biddell Airy"
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description: "Sir George Biddell Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1826 to 1828 and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian."
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birthDate: "1801-07-27"
deathDate: "1892-01-02"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump