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Encyclopedia > Ernest William Brown

Ernest William Brown (November 29, 1866July 22, 1938) was a British astronomer.


He studied the theory of the Moon's motion and compiled extremely accurate lunar tables. He also calculated the orbits of Trojan asteroids.


He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1907, the Bruce Medal in 1920 and the James Craig Watson Medal in 1936.


A crater on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 1643 Brown.


External links

  • Bruce Medal page (http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Brown/index.html)
  • Awarding of Bruce Medal: PASP 32 (1920) 85 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0032//0000085.000.html)
  • Awarding of RAS gold medal: MNRAS 67 (1907) 300 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0067//0000300.000.html)

Obituaries

  • ApJ 89 (1939) 152 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0089//0000152.000.html)
  • MNRAS 99 (1939) 300 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0099//0000300.000.html)
  • Obs 62 (1938) 21 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0062//0000021.000.html)
  • PASP 50 (1938) 257 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0050//0000257.000.html)

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Ernest William Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1034 words)
Brown was made a fellow of Christ's College in 1889, and received his Masters degree in 1891.
In 1907, Brown was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Yale University.
Brown's Tables were adopted by nearly all of the national ephemerides in 1923 for their calculations of the Moon's position, and continued to be used for most of the remainder of the 20th century.
Ernest Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (753 words)
Alfred Ernest Brown CH (August 27, 1881-February 16, 1962) was a British politician who served as leader of the National Liberals from 1940 until 1945.
Brown served as Secretary of State for Scotland for a year before becoming Minister of Health for two years and finally Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Brown's tenure as leader of the Liberal Nationals was one of decline, as the party saw its influence diminish.
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