The Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose...
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Ian Morison (category Academics of Gresham College)
British astronomer and astrophysicist who served as the 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Ian Morison was born in Felpham, England on 22 November 1943...
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Chris Lintott (category Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge)
is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics in the University of Oxford, and since 2023, Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College...
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Michael Rowan-Robinson (category Fellows of the Institute of Physics)
as Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Rowan-Robinson was educated at Eshton Hall School and the University of Cambridge where he completed a Bachelor of Arts...
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the formation of the Royal Society. Early distinguished Gresham College professors included Christopher Wren, who lectured on astronomy in the 17th century...
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Edmund Gunter (redirect from Gunter's line of numbers)
mathematics by Reverend Henry Briggs and eventually became a Gresham Professor of Astronomy, from 1619 until his death. Gunter was born in Hertfordshire...
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John Machin (category Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
John Machin (bapt. c. 1686 – June 9, 1751) was a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. He is best known for developing a quickly converging...
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Colin Pillinger (redirect from Professor Pillinger)
Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, a position once held by Sir Christopher Wren. He said of his appointment as professor of astronomy:...
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appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Samuel apprenticed under Henry Featherstone from 1630 to 1637, set up shop at the sign of the Brazen Serpent...
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John D. Barrow (category Academics of Gresham College)
From 2003 to 2007 he was Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London, and he was appointed as Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2008 to 2011;...
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