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Herbert Hall Turner FRS (13 August 1861 – 20 August 1930) was a British astronomer and seismologist.
Herbert Hall Turner ( Leeds, 13 de agosto de 1861 — Estocolmo, 20 de agosto de 1930) foi um astrônomo e sismólogo britânico. [ 1] Biografia. Herbert Hall Turner foi educado na Leeds Modern School, Clifton College, [ 2] Bristol e Trinity College, Cambridge.
12 de abr. de 2024 · Herbert Hall Turner (born Aug. 13, 1861, Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Aug. 20, 1930, Stockholm, Sweden) was an English astronomer who pioneered many of the procedures now universally employed in determining stellar positions from astronomical photographs.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
After serving as chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory for nine years, he spent most of his career as Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford. One of the leaders in the worldwide effort to produce an astrographic chart of the sky, he developed improved methods.
Introdução Herbert Hall Turner; Biografia; Trabalhos; Referências; Ligações externas
Besides making fundamental contributions to the disciplines of astronomy and seismology, Herbert Turner was a leading advocate of international cooperation in science. He was the eldest son of John and Isabella Turner.
H.H. Turner was continuing his stud ies in mathematics as a Fellow of Trinity College at Cambridge University. One of his examiners was Astronomer Royal William H.M. Christie, who had recently taken over the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and was anxious to modernize that staid institution.
