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George Biddell Airy
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English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)

Also known as: George Airy, Sir G. B. Airy, Sir George Biddell Airy, Джордж Биддель Эйри, جورج بيدل أيري, 조지 비델 에어리

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Known works

  • Gravitation
  • Account of the Northumberland equatoreal and dome, attached to the Cambridge observatory
  • Account of some circumstances historically connected with the discovery of the planet exterior to Uranus
  • Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
  • On the undulatory theory of optics