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The director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory was the senior scientist responsible for the administration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1972 until the institution's closure in 1998.

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Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory

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The director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory was the senior scientist responsible for the administration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1972...

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Astronomer Royal

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The astronomer royal was director of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich from the establishment of the post in 1675 until 1972. The astronomer royal became...

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Margaret Burbidge

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including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1973–1975), president of the American Astronomical Society (1976–1978), and president of the American...

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List of watchmakers

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London. George Airy (1802–1892), English astronomer and director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Andreas Hohwü (1803–1885), Dutch chronometer maker,...

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Alan Hunter

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Hunter (astronomer) (1912–1995), English astronomer, Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory Allan Hunter (disambiguation) Al Hunter (disambiguation)...

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Frank Watson Dyson

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Royal (and Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory) from 1910 to 1933. In 1928, he introduced in the Observatory a new free-pendulum clock, the most accurate...

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University of Greenwich

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The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along with its Avery Hill campus, is located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich....

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Peter Harrison Planetarium

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under the then Director, Roy Clare CBE, as the centrepiece of the "Time and Space" project, a £17.7m re-development of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and...

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Alexander Boksenberg

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British scientist who was the Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1981–1995. In the early 1980s he developed the image photon counting system...

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Paris Observatory

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than 200 years. The Paris Observatory predates by a few years the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England, which was founded in 1675. The English philosopher...

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National Maritime Museum

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founded the Royal Observatory in 1675 for "finding the longitude of places". The home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian since 1884, Greenwich has...

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HM Nautical Almanac Office

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now part of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG), where The Nautical...

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Dunsink Observatory

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local mean time at Dunsink, just as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at Greenwich Royal Observatory near London. In 1916, Ireland moved...

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Prime meridian

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published 49 issues of the Nautical Almanac based on the meridian of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. "Maskelyne's tables not only made the lunar method practicable...

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Royal Navy Medical Service

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The Royal Navy Medical Service is the branch of the Royal Navy responsible for medical care. It works closely with Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing...

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International Meridian Conference

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here represented the adoption of the meridian passing through the centre of the transit instrument at the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian...

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Henry Rainsford Hulme

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married in first half of 1937. Not long after the marriage, Hulme accepted a position at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich as the Chief Assistant. Even...

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George Biddell Airy

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Transactions of the Royal Society. 146: 343–355. doi:10.1098/rstl.1856.0015. "WGS84 and the Greenwich Meridian". Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Retrieved...

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Le Cheminant

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intObjectID=4757050 Ledger of Receipts and Issues of Chronometers. Held by the Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK. Le Cheminant...

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Edward Walter Maunder

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17 April 2008. Maunder, E. Walter (1900). The Royal Observatory, Greenwich—Original publication: London: The Religious Tract Society Maunder, E. Walter...

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Standard time

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American observatories, including the Allegheny Observatory, the United States Naval Observatory, the Harvard College Observatory, and the Yale University...

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