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    Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl, ˈhɛər-/; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician...
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    John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third...
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    Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl/; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer...
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    Caroline Lucretia Herschel (/ˈhɜːrʃəl, ˈhɛər-/; 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German-born British astronomer, whose most significant contributions...
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  • academic Herschel Austin (1911–1974), British furniture-maker and politician Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815–1878), South Australian explorer Herschel Baltimore...
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  • Colonel John Herschel FRS, FRAS (29 October 1837 – 31 May 1921) was an English military engineer, surveyor and astronomer. He was the son of Sir John Herschel...
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  • Major John Herschel Hardcastle (1870–1937) was an artillery officer in the British Army. He became a ballistics expert and conducted experiments at the...
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    astronomers William Herschel and John Herschel. Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft originally photographed fields of dark sand dunes within Herschel. Images from...
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    and consolidated the cataloguing work of William and Caroline Herschel, and John Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. Objects...
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    differences. The anthotype process was discovered in 1839 by Sir John Herschel. Herschel referenced an experiment on October 11, 1839 in a paper published...
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