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Ernest William Brown
Ernest William Brown FRS was an English mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923.
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science · English-American astronomer and mathematician (1866–1938) · mathematician · astronomer · also Ernest William Brown, Brown
Born 29 November 1866 · Died 22 July 1938 · Q465729
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2026· 3 entries
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NBC Connecticut: ‘Black and Brown' beach party moved from Old Lyme after concerns raised over noise
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,123 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,017 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,648 times.
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1984· 1 entry
Brown's work was replaced by results gained from more modern observational data (including data from lunar laser ranging) and altogether new computational methods for calculating the Moon's ephemeris
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1938· 1 entry
Died 1938-07-22.
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1937· 1 entry
Was awarded the Watson Medal by the US National Academy of Sciences
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1936· 1 entry
Won James Craig Watson Medal (1936).
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1933· 1 entry
Published the book, Planetary Theory, co-authored with Clarence Shook, which contained a detailed exposition of resonance in planetary orbits and examined the special case of the Trojan asteroids
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1927· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1927).
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1923· 1 entry
For their calculations of the Moon's position, and continued to be used with some modification until 1983
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1920· 1 entry
Won Bruce Medal (1920).
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1914· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1914).
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1907· 3 entries
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1907).
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Awarded Adams Prize (1907).
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Was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, with which he secured an agreement for funding the massive task of calculating detailed tables of the Moon's motion, based on his lunar theory
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1898· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1898).
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1896· 1 entry
When Brown was still less than 30 years of age
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1891· 2 entries
Studied at University of Cambridge, master's degree (1891).
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And then left Cambridge to take up a place as a mathematics instructor at Haverford College, Pennsylvania
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1889· 1 entry
And was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in the same year
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1887· 1 entry
Studied at Christ's College (1884–1887).
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1884· 1 entry
Studied at Hull and East Riding College (1884).
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1870· 1 entry
When Brown was not quite 4 years old
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-11-29.
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