Sir George Biddell Airy

Standard Name: Airy, Sir George Biddell

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Emily Shirreff
ES 's circle of friends included Sir William Grove (inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville , lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley , astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy , Sir John Herschel

Timeline

1839: At Cambridge, the Cambridge Network—which...

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1839

At Cambridge, the Cambridge Network—which included John Herschel , William Babbage , George Peacock , George Airy , Adam Sedgwick , and William Whewell —lobbied to establish the formal study of science.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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