James Glaisher
1809–1903
Astronomer and meteorologist. Assistant, Cambridge University observatory, 1833–5. In charge of the magnetic and meteorological department at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1838–74. Secretary, Royal Meteorological Society, 1850–67, 1868–73; president, 1867–8. FRS 1849.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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