Richard Christopher Carrington

Richard Christopher Carrington
Born(1826-05-26)26 May 1826
Died27 November 1875(1875-11-27) (aged 49)
Churt, England
NationalityEnglish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forSolar observations, including the Carrington Event
SpouseRosa Ellen Jeffries (1845–1875, m. 1869)
AwardsGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1859)
Lalande Prize (1864)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsDurham University Observatory[1]

Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875)[2] was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun.[3]

  1. ^ "Richard Christopher Carrington (1826–1875)". The National Center for Atmospheric Research. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carrington, Richard Christopher" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ Cliver, Edward W.; Keer, Norman C. (25 July 2012). "Richard Christopher Carrington: Briefly Among the Great Scientists of His Time". Solar Physics. 280 (1): 1–31. Bibcode:2012SoPh..280....1C. doi:10.1007/s11207-012-0034-5. S2CID 255072235. Retrieved 30 September 2021.