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Norman Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature.
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science · English scientist and astronomer (1836–1920) · physicist · astronomer · university teacher · also Norman Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, Joseph Norman Lockyer, Lockyer
Born 17 May 1836 · Died 16 August 1920 · Q127959
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Scientific American: Stories by J. Norman Lockyer
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1920· 2 entries
Died 1920-08-16.
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And was buried there in the churchyard of St Peter and St Mary
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1913· 1 entry
Lockyer established an observatory near his home in Salcombe Regis near Sidmouth, Devon
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1903· 1 entry
Lockyer started a second marriage, to suffragist Thomazine Mary Brodhurst (née Browne)
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1889· 1 entry
Won Janssen Medal (1889).
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1888· 1 entry
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1888).
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1885· 1 entry
Became the world's first professor of astronomical physics at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, now part of Imperial College
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1874· 1 entry
Won Rumford Medal (1874).
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1870· 1 entry
To Sicily (with his first wife Winifred as his assistant), 1871 to India and 1898 to India
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1868· 1 entry
A prominent yellow line was observed in a spectrum taken near the edge of the Sun
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1836· 1 entry
Born 1836-05-17.
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