“My brother wrote an account of it to Sir J. Banks, Dr. Maskelyne, and to several astronomical correspondents”
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Caroline Herschel
Caroline Lucretia Herschel was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. She was the younger sister of astronomer William Herschel, with whom she worked for most of her career.
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science · German-British astronomer (1750–1848) · astronomer · mathematician · singer · violinist · also Caroline Herschel, C. Herschel, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, Lucretia Herschel, Caroline (Lucretia) Herschel, Herschel
Born 16 March 1750 · Died 9 January 1848 · Q76948
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An Account of a New Comet by Caroline Herschel - read by Availle for LibriVox's Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 047 (2017)
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UK musician and singer-songwriter Jay Anderson released the single 'Moving' on Real Kind Records, a song dedicated to the life and times of Caroline Herschel
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2023· 1 entry
The 57 densely handwritten pages of her diary were put on display in the music room of the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, the same place that Herschel resided
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1848· 1 entry
Died 1848-01-09.
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1846· 1 entry
At the age of 96, she was awarded a gold medal for Science by the King of Prussia, conveyed to her by Alexander von Humboldt, "in recognition of the valuable services rendered to Astronomy by you, as the fellow-worker of
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1835· 1 entry
Along with Mary Somerville; they were the first female members
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1832· 1 entry
As saying “She runs about the town with me and skips up her two flights of stairs as wonderfully fresh at least as some folks I could name who are not a fourth of her age… In the morning till eleven or twelve she is dull
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1828· 3 entries
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1828).
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"for her recent reduction, to January, 1800, of the [2,500] Nebulæ discovered by her illustrious brother, which may be considered as the completion of a series of exertions probably unparalleled either in magnitude or im
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The Royal Astronomical Society presented her with their Gold Medal for this work—no woman would be awarded it again until Vera Rubin in 1996
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1825· 1 entry
Caroline donated the works of Flamsteed to the Royal Academy of Göttingen
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1822· 1 entry
Caroline was grief-stricken and moved back to Hanover, Germany, continuing her astronomical studies to verify and confirm William's findings and producing a catalogue of nebulae to assist her nephew John Herschel in his
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1802· 1 entry
The Royal Society published Caroline's catalogue in its Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A under William's name
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1750· 1 entry
Born 1750-03-16.
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