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	John Herschel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Herschel originated the use of the Julian day system in astronomy and made several important contributions to the improvement of photographic processes (Cyanotype).
		Herschel was born at Slough, Buckinghamshire, and studied at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge.
		For this work he was presented in 1826 with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (which he would win again in 1836); and with the Lalande Medal of the French Institute in 1825; while the Royal Society had in 1821 bestowed upon him the Copley Medal for his mathematical contributions to their Transactions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Herschel (653 words)

	John Glenn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio, is named after him.
		In 1970, John Glenn entered politics and represented Ohio for the Democratic Party in the Senate from 1974 until retiring in 1999.
		After his retirement, John and Annie Glenn founded the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at The Ohio State University, which moved to its new facility, the renovated Page Hall, in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Glenn (1512 words)

	John F. W. Herschel 1792-1871
		John Herschel’s father, William Herschel, was discoverer of the planet Uranus, maker of the largest and best telescopes of his day, and Europe’s foremost practical astronomer.
		John Herschel was equally famous, but as his interests spread far wider than his father’s, including mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology and education, as well as music, languages and poetry, and public service and philanthropy, he did not tower over his contemporaries in astronomy as William Herschel had done.
		Herschel’s main scientific publications were astronomical, most notably reporting on his four years’ work in South Africa 11 where he catalogued some 70,000 stars and some thousands of nebulae and double stars, as well as his continuation of his father’s work on stars, nebulae and double stars in the northern skies.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /faculty/westbury/Paradigm/Rutter.html (876 words)

	A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Herschel, of course, had the fortune to be around just at the time both Daguerre and Fox Talbot were announcing their discoveries.
		It is also to Herschel that we also owe the word "photography", a term which he used in a paper entitled "Note on the art of Photography, or The Application of the Chemical Rays of Light to the Purpose of Pictorial Representation," presented to the Royal Society on 14 March 1839.
		It was taken by Sir John Herschel in 1839, and shows his father's telescope in Slough, near London.
	www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/herschel.htm (311 words)

	Herschel_Caroline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Caroline Herschel's four brothers were all brought up to be musicians while Caroline showed an enthusiasm for knowledge which her father tried to satisfy despite all her mother's efforts to ensure that she did nothing but household tasks.
		She became involved with the education of John Herschel, William and Mary Herschel's son who was born in 1792.
		John Herschel spent long periods with his aunt during the vacations and was greatly influenced by Caroline.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Herschel_Caroline.html (1698 words)

	William Herschel (1738-1822)
		Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was born in Hannover (Germany) in 1738 as son of Issak Herschel (1707-1767), a musician in the regimental band of the Foot-Guards, and Anna Ilse (b.
		William Herschel died on August 25, 1822 in Slough, England, and was buried in the church of Upton on September 7.
		William Herschel was honored lately by the astronomical community by naming Moon crater Herschel (5.7S, 2.1W, 40 km diameter, in 1935), together with his son John by naming Mars crater Herschel (14.9S, 230.3W, 304 km diameter, in 1973), and a crater on Saturn's moon Mimas (2.9N, 109.5W, in 1982).
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/wherschel.html (1236 words)

	Herschel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Caroline Herschel had left her brother's home when he married, but she continued to come to Observatory House every day to help William reduce his data and she proved an outstanding teacher to John, carrying out experiments in physics and chemistry with the young boy.
		Herschel did not offer these three approaches with equal recommendation for he believed that the algebraic approach of Lagrange was the right one.
		Herschel was a scientist by nature, not a business man. After difficult years, frequently separated from his family by the demands of the job which he tried his best to do well, he resigned.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Herschel.html (2680 words)

	John Frederick William Herschel, Sir Biography / Biography of John Frederick William Herschel, Sir Biography Biography
		John Herschel was born at Slough on March 7, 1792, son of William Herschel, the most eminent astronomer of the period.
		Soon after graduation Herschel and two classmates composed a textbook on the calculus, which was aimed at, and succeeded in, introducing into England the more powerful mathematical methods that had been developed on the Continent during the preceding century.
		By 1839 Herschel was right in the thick of things, with the invention of methods of producing images on paper and glass rather than metal, and he introduced "positive" and "negative" in the photographic context.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-frederick-william-herschel-sir (752 words)

	Herschel Club - Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel
		Herschel was granted a pension of 200 pounds a year and knighted by King George 111, who also made him "King's Astronomer".
		The instruments Herschel had lacked clock drives to keep them trained on the moving sky, so the method he used was to direct his telescope to a point on the meridian and watch what crossed the field of view.
		Herschel's son John took his father's instrument to South Africa where he was able to survey the southern skies.
	www.astroleague.org /al/obsclubs/herschel/fwhershs.html (766 words)

	DOC John Herschel's catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"John Frederick William Herschel, Bart., K.H. was born at Slough, near Windsor, on the 7th March, 1792 and died at Collingwood, Kent on the 11th May, 1871, in his eightieth year.
		Evans continues: "We need now to envisage Herschel some time in 1832: He is one of the most celebrated scientists in Europe, a knight, honored by numerous scientific bodies, happily married, acquainted with all the most distinguished scientists of Europe, a polyglot, with German, French, Italian, Latin and Greek at his command.
		For John Herschel was perhaps the last significant figure to devote himself wholly and full-time to fundamental research in astronomy and its related sciences on the strength of a private fortune.
	www.saao.ac.za /assa/html/doc_john_herschel_s_catalogue.html (886 words)

	Inductee Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir John Frederick William Herschel was the only child of Mary Pitt and the respected, British astronomer, William Herschel who discovered Uranus.
		Herschel, with a volatile, soaring imagination, is an ideal of learning: He set aside nationalism; openly shared knowledge; did not patent his findings; and did not commercially exploit his discoveries” writes photo historian Robert Hirsch.
		John Herschel continued his scientific research until his death on May 11, 1871 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England.
	www.iphf.org /inductees/SFWHerschel.htm (1040 words)

	06 Herschel, Wilhelm
		On the evening of March, 13th 1781 Herschel was working on the extension of his double star catalog when he found a bright object in an area near the star H Geminorum where the charts of Harris showed no star.
		In November 1781 Herschel was invited to London by the Royal Society and received the Copley medal from Sir Joseph Banks, president of the society.
		Herschel preferred to observe with the 20-feet telescope, with which he discovered the Uranus moons Titania and Oberon.
	www.plicht.de /chris/06hersch.htm (1329 words)

	NASA Historical Biography - John Glenn
		Note: This biography is dated June 1978 and represents John Glenn's last official NASA biography prior to his approval for his shuttle flight in 1998.
		John H. Glenn, Jr., Colonel, USMC (Ret.), was born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio.
		John H. Glenn of New Concord, are deceased.
	www.lerc.nasa.gov /WWW/PAO/html/jglenbio.htm (704 words)

	Argyropoulos, John -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon John Boyd Dunlop was born in Dreghorn, near Irvine.
		English astronomer John Frederick William Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, on March 7, 1792.
		John Herschel discovered 525 star clusters and nebulae not recorded by his father, and he made the first telescopic survey of the southern heavens.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002279 (704 words)

	No. 395: John Herschel
		John was raised by a cheerful mother, a famous father, and a maiden aunt, Caroline.
		For 56 years she and John were joined by a great bond of affection.
		You might say John was born with a silver telescope in his eye.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi395.htm (461 words)

	Space Today Online - Astronaut John Glenn
		John Glenn seems to have done it all -- college graduate, distinguished war hero, first American to orbit Earth, U.S. senator, the oldest person to fly in space.
		John Glenn gained national recognition in 1957 when he set a transcontinental speed record, flying from Los Angeles to New York in 3 hours and 23 minutes.
		On October 29, 1998, John Glenn, at age 77, became the oldest person in space when he and six other astronauts were lofted to Earth orbit for nine days aboard shuttle Discovery.
	www.spacetoday.org /Astronauts/JohnGlenn.html (490 words)

	Great Creation Scientists
		For this discovery, Herschel was awarded the prestigious Copely Award of the Royal Society, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
		Herschel investigated heat and light from the sun using thermometers and prisms.
		John pioneered the use of sodium thiosulphite (commonly called hypo) as a fixing agent in early photography.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v22/i3/scientists.asp (1818 words)

	The My Hero Project - John Glenn
		In 1959, John Glenn was selected to be one of the first seven astronauts in the U.S. space program.
		John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth.
		John Wesley Powell is an internationally venerated advocate for preserving biodiversity.
	www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=J_Glenn (787 words)

	Herschel, Sir John, 1st Baronet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		John Herschel Glenn, Jr., made history in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
		The founder of modern stellar astronomy was a German-born organist, William Herschel.
		Herschel developed theories of the structure of nebulas and the evolution of stars, cataloged many binary stars, and made significant modifications in the reflecting telescope.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9040234 (739 words)

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		But Herschel was prone to speculate beyond the facts, and he was convinced by a shaky argument from analogy, that all stars and planets have intelligent life.
		In the year 1835 John was in Feldhausen, South Africa, where he built a telescope to take advantage of the clearer air there and to see portions of the southern sky not visible at northern latitudes.
		John Herschel's 20 foot telescope at Feldhausen, S. In this year the New York Sun newspaper published, in instalment form, an alleged reprint account of John Herschel's discoveries in South Africa.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/hoaxes/moonhoax.htm (730 words)

	Sir John Herschel (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An accomplished chemist, Herschel discovered the action of hyposulfite of soda on otherwise insoluble silver salts in 1819, which led to the use of "hypo" as a fixing agent in photography.
		It was Herschel who coined the use of the terms photography, positive, and negative to refer to photographic images.
		In 1850 Herschel was appointed master of the Mint, but he resigned six years later due to poor health.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a1917-1.html (201 words)

	Herschel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir William Herschel, 1738–1822, born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, was a great pioneer in the study of the stars.
		Sir William’s sister, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 1750–1848, discovered eight comets and three nebulae and from 1772 collaborated with her brother.
		She revised (1798) John Flamsteed’s catalog of stars and arranged her brother’s catalog of star clusters and nebulae, for which she received the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828.
	www.bartleby.com /65/he/Herschel.html (607 words)

	AIM25: Royal Society: Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871)
		Herschel also became involved in the discovery and arbitration of the controversy over the discovery of Neptune in 1846.
		Herschel died on 11 May 1871, being buried in Westminster Abbey next to the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton.
		These are arranged in chronological order and are apparently constructed from Herschel's original letters brought together by a son, Col. John Herschel R.E., for a proposed biography and then returned to their original owners.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/18/5979.htm (976 words)

	Herschel -> Sir John Frederick William Herschel on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir William's son, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1792-1871, first distinguished himself as a mathematician at Cambridge but later turned to astronomy.
		He confirmed his father's observations of double stars, was able to add numbers of previously unrecognized pairs to those in the catalog, and extended his examination to include nebulae.
		The latter was revised by Johan Dreyer as A New General Catalogue of Nebulas and Clusters of Stars (1888), and, generally known as the NGC (see New General Catalog), it still serves as a standard reference source.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/herschel_sirjohnfrederickwilliamherschel.asp (683 words)

	Herschel \| Sir \| John Frederick William \| 1792-1871 \| astronomer
		John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) was a notable astronomer, as well as an accomplished chemist and contributor to the science of optics and photography.
		Born into a family of astronomers - his father was Friedrich Wilhelm (William) Herschel (1738-1822, who discovered Uranus, Herschel was educated in a number of public schools, at home by a Scottish mathematician and subsequently at St John's College, Cambridge, which he graduated from with a BA in 1813.
		Herschel wrote many papers and articles, including those on meteorology, physical geography and the telescope from the eighth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0327.html (371 words)

	John Glenn, Astronaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Herschel Glenn, Jr.was born 18 July 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio.
		When he was 21, John Glenn joined the Air Force and became a fighter pilot.
		John Glenn is married and he and his wife Anna have two grown children and two grandchildren.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/johnglenn.htm (191 words)

	William Herschel, John Herschel, and Mark Hatfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We can learn a lot about William Herschel, John Herschel, and Mark Hatfield and their worldview by the things that they said in their lives.
		Both William and John Herschel were great astronomers that lived in the 1700's and 1800's.
		John Herschel, who should more properly be referred to as Sir John Frederick Herschel, was the son of William who discovered and catalogued over 500 new stars and nebulae.
	www.christianbaptistliving.com /william-herschel.html (272 words)

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