John Frederick William Herschel: advisors and students

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John Frederick William Herschel

English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer1792 to 1871

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William Herschel

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known as: astronomer, photographer, mathematician, chemist, physicist, writer
fields: mathematic, astronomy, chemistry, photography
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, 1813, Copley Medal, 1821, Copley Medal, 1847, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Royal Medal, 1833, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1826, Lalande Prize, 1825, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, 1823, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1832
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1813, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1841
notable works: General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, On the aberrations of compound lenses and object-glasses
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