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.
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George Biddell Airy
Computer-generated image simulating an Airy Disk
Airy's Transit Circle in the Transit Circle Room of the Royal Greenwich Observatory; for a hundred years from 1884 to 1984, it marked the Prime meridian of the world, or more accurately, the Prime Meridian was marked by or derived from it.
The Prime Meridian in Greenwich (1884-1984); the telescope shown above left is behind the glass
George Biddell Airy caricatured by Ape in Vanity Fair Nov 1875Awards 12
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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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