Category:George Biddell Airy

George Biddell Airy
	English mathematician and astronomer
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Date of birth	27 July 1801; Alnwick
Date of death	2 January 1892; Greenwich
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Educated at	Colchester Royal Grammar School; Trinity College;
Occupation	mathematician; astronomer; physicist; university teacher;
Employer	University of Cambridge;
Member of	Royal Society; Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Russian Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Royal Irish Academy; Russian Academy of Sciences; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL;
Position held	Astronomer Royal (1835, John Pond, 1881, William Christie, 7); President of the Royal Society (1871, Edward Sabine, 1873, Joseph Dalton Hooker, 31);
Native language	English;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society; Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath; Copley Medal (1831); Order of Merit for Arts and Science; Royal Medal; Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1846); Lalande Prize (1834); Albert Medal (1876); Bakerian Lecture (1840);
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