F. J. M. Stratton

British astronomer (1881-1960) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 78

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton PRAS was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer.

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Mason College, now the University of Birmingham

Stratton, left; possibly during the Fifth Conference of the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, held in Bonn, Germany, 1913

Awards

Prix Jules Janssen1952

Tyson Medal1905

Fellow of the Royal Society

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Distinguished Service Order

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