Alexander Stewart Herschel | |
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| Born | 5 February 1836 Feldhausen, near Cape Town, British Cape Colony (today South Africa) |
| Died | 18 June 1907 (aged 71) Slough, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Spouse | None |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronomy, physics |
| Institutions | Royal School of Mines, Andersonian University, University of Durham |
Alexander Stewart Herschel, DCL, FRS (5 February 1836 – 18 June 1907) was a British astronomer.
Although much less well known than his grandfather William Herschel or his father John Herschel, he did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy.[1][2] He also worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers.[3] The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after Herschel due to his pioneering work on Hamilton's Icosian game.
- ^ Cavin 2011, p. 86.
- ^ Beech 2007, p. 490.
- ^ Crowe 1997, p. 255.