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    Sir David Gill KCB FRS FRSE FRAS (12 June 1843 – 24 January 1914) was a Scottish astronomer who is known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography...
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  • David Gill or Dave Gill may refer to: Dave Gill (1887–1959), Canadian ice hockey coach David Gill (astronomer) (1843–1914), Scottish astronomer David...
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  • Edmund Neville Nevill (category 20th-century British astronomers)
    representative on the Legislative Council of the Colony of Natal. David Gill, Astronomer Royal to the Cape, agreed and £350 voted by the Corporation of Durban...
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    William Duguid Geddes Very Rev Alexander Gerard James Giles RSA David Gill (astronomer) Prof John Harrower Jessie Seymour Irvine, hymn tune composer Rev...
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  • four monarchs George Alexander Gibson, physician and geologist Sir David Gill, astronomer William Frederick Harvey, public health expert, Director of the...
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  • Gilbert (1544–1603) WGPSN Gill 63°46′S 75°57′E / 63.77°S 75.95°E / -63.77; 75.95 (Gill) 63.9 1964 David Gill (astronomer) (1843–1914) WGPSN Ginzel...
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  • von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Classical philologist Berlin 1910 Sir David Gill Astronomer London 1910 Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin Aeronaut Friedrichshafen...
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    Kapteyn's Star (discovered with this instrument in 1897) Durchmusterung David Gill (astronomer) Triquetrum (astronomy) University museum of Groningen (Dutch Wikipedia)...
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  • (1916–1984), American astronomer Joe Gill (1919–2006), American comics writer John Gill (disambiguation), several people Johnny Gill (disambiguation), several...
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  • feminist tract A Plea for Woman is published in Edinburgh. 12 June – David Gill, astronomer known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography...
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    Robert T. A. Innes (category 19th-century Australian astronomers)
    invited to the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope by the HM Astronomer Sir David Gill in 1894 and appointed in 1896. While at the Cape, he discovered...
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    19 January 2016. Kreps, Daniel (16 January 2016). "Belgian Astronomers Pay Tribute to David Bowie With New Constellation". Rolling Stone. Archived from...
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    King, David A. (2007). "Ibn al‐Shāṭir: ʿAlāʾ al‐Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New...
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  • awarded in 1956 to Harold Knox Shaw. The Medal commemorates Sir David Gill, HM Astronomer at the Cape (1879–1907), renowned for his numerous researches...
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  • May 1939 – 5 May 2023) Hon. FRSSAf was a British South African optical astronomer who was Emeritus Distinguished Professor of natural philosophy at the...
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  • The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy. They may have...
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  • Lindsay Eddie (category South African astronomers)
    chronometer with which to time the observations. Two astronomers at the Royal Observatory in Cape Town, D. Gill and W.H. Finlay sent a series of telegraphed time...
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  • Alan William James Cousins (category South African astronomers)
    James Cousins FRAS (8 August 1903 – 11 May 2001) was a South African astronomer. His career spanned 70 years during which time he concentrated on the...
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    John Jackson (11 February 1887 – 9 December 1958) was a Scottish astronomer. He was awarded The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for his work...
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  • William Henry Finlay (category South African astronomers)
    – 7 December 1924, in Grahamstown, South Africa) was a South African astronomer. He was First Assistant at the Cape Observatory from 1873 to 1898 under...
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    Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, living...
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    21..387W. Forbes, George (1916). David Gill, man and astronomer ; memoirs of Sir David Gill, K.C.B., H.M. astronomer (1879-1907) at the Cape of Good Hope...
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    Jacobus Kapteyn (category Dutch astronomers)
    an observatory, he volunteered to measure photographic plates taken by David Gill, who was conducting a photographic survey of southern hemisphere stars...
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    publications, up to 1913, is given in Gill (1913). Other notable staff included: Charles Piazzi Smyth 1835–1845. Later Astronomer Royal for Scotland. William Lewis...
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  • on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor...
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    Niccolò Zucchi (category 17th-century Italian astronomers)
    December 6, 1586 – May 21, 1670) was an Italian Jesuit, astronomer, and physicist. As an astronomer he may have been the first to see the belts on the planet...
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  • Hunt MacMillan III and Peter Gill of the Forensic Science Service (Birmingham); in Charlottesville in June 1994; David Enoch (psychiatrist) of the Royal...
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  • on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor...
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    had become an exceptionally bright object. Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the...
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  • baseball player David Ritchie, physicist David Rittenhouse (1732–1796), American astronomer David Rittich (born 1992), Czech ice hockey player David Ritz (born...
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