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George Biddell Airy

Died on January 2, 1892

134

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Sir George Biddell Airy (27 July 1801 – 2 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1826 to 1828 and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.

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