William Rutter Dawes (19 March 1799 – 15 February 1868) was an English astronomer. Dawes was born at Christ's Hospital then in the City of London (it moved...
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Argaeus mountain rise. It is named after British astronomer William Rutter Dawes. Dawes is circular with a sharp rim that has a slightly flattened oval...
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Dawes' limit is a formula to express the maximum resolving power of a microscope or telescope. It is so named after its discoverer, William Rutter Dawes...
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William Rutter Dawes, born 17 December 1797, baptised 11 February 1798, St Mary, Portsea. He was buried at Portsea, 26 May 1798. William Rutter Dawes...
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Sierra Leone, astronomer, and abolitionist William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868), British astronomer William Dawes (abolitionist), American abolitionist and...
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earliest maps of Mars in 1867 from 27 drawings by the English observer William Rutter Dawes. His map was later superseded by those of Giovanni Schiaparelli and...
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James William Grant FRSE while in India on 23 July 1844. It was rediscovered by Ormsby M. Mitchel in 1846 and measured by William Rutter Dawes in April...
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was discovered in 1850 by William and George Bond, though William R. Dawes and Johann Galle also saw it independently. William Lassell termed it the "Crepe...
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In particular, Dawes appeared no fewer than six times (Dawes Ocean, Dawes Continent, Dawes Sea, Dawes Strait, Dawes Isle, and Dawes Forked Bay). Even...
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Davies (United Kingdom, 1954–) Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519) William Rutter Dawes (United Kingdom, 1799–1868) Bernhard Dawson (Argentina, 1890–1960)...
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