Smith's Prize (1823) Copley Medal (1831) RAS Gold Medal (1833, 1846) Lalande Prize (1834) Royal Medal (1845) Albert Medal (1876)
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy, mathematics
Institutions
Trinity College, Cambridge Royal Society
Academic advisors
George Peacock
Sir George Biddell AiryKCB FRS (/ˈɛəri/; 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. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
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Sir GeorgeBiddellAiry KCB FRS (/ˈɛəri/; 27 July 1801 – 2 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor...
Look up airy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Airy may refer to: Sir GeorgeBiddellAiry (1801–1892), British Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, for...
as the Airy disk, which together with the series of concentric rings around is called the Airy pattern. Both are named after GeorgeBiddellAiry. The disk...
sciences, the Airy function (or Airy function of the first kind) Ai(x) is a special function named after the British astronomer GeorgeBiddellAiry (1801–1892)...
Airy points (after GeorgeBiddellAiry) are used for precision measurement (metrology) to support a length standard in such a way as to minimise bending...
Biddell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: GeorgeBiddellAiry (1801–1892), English mathematician and astronomer Kerrie Biddell (1947–2014)...
This theory was first published, in correct form, by GeorgeBiddellAiry in the 19th century. Airy wave theory is often applied in ocean engineering and...
and Sciences in 1832. Babbage was out of sympathy with colleagues: GeorgeBiddellAiry, his predecessor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Trinity...
Kent, England. It was established in 1855 by the Astronomer Royal GeorgeBiddellAiry in collaboration with Charles V. Walker, superintendent of telegraphs...
Master at the Woodbridge Grammar School and a mother descended from GeorgeBiddellAiry, Astronomer Royal (1835–1881). His younger sister was the illustrator...
professorship. Babbage applied for the vacancy in 1826, after Turton, but Airy was appointed. William Whewell (who considered applying, but preferred both...
astronomers across Europe. Another notable Astronomer Royal was Sir GeorgeBiddellAiry. While still in college at Trinity College, Cambridge, he noticed...
testimonial medals, awarded to John Couch Adams, GeorgeBiddellAiry, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, George Bishop, George Everest, Peter Andreas Hansen, Karl Ludwig...
1845 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the youngest son of Sir GeorgeBiddellAiry, the Astronomer Royal. He was educated at Blackheath Proprietary...
1793–1864 (Russian Empire) Johann Jacob Baeyer 1794–1885 (Germany) GeorgeBiddellAiry 1801–1892 (England) Carl Christopher Georg Andræ 1812–1893 (Denmark)...
Vince (1796–1821) Robert Woodhouse (1822–1827) GeorgeBiddellAiry (1828–1835) James Challis (1836–1882) George Darwin (1883–1912) Arthur Eddington (1913–1944)...
(1827, 4.77 g/cm3), Carlo Ignazio Giulio (1841, 4.95 g/cm3) and GeorgeBiddellAiry (1854, 6.6 g/cm3). Cavendish's experiment was first repeated by Ferdinand...
Newton's and Daniel Bernoulli's theories of hydrodynamics. GeorgeBiddellAiry and George Gabriel Stokes had difficulty accepting Scott Russell's experimental...
interfere with itself. Young's work was refined in the 1820s by GeorgeBiddellAiry, who explained the dependence of the strength of the colours of the...
world-leading figures in mathematics, physics, and other fields. They include GeorgeAiry, Jacob Bronowski, Christopher Budd, Kevin Buzzard, Arthur Cayley, Donald...
the Airy integral, developed in the 1830s by Sir GeorgeBiddellAiry to explain optical caustics such as those appearing in a rainbow. The Airy waveform...
in 1841 by Carlo Ignazio Giulio to 4.95 g/cm3. On the other hand, GeorgeBiddellAiry sought to determine ρ by measuring the difference in the period of...
published posthumously in 1838 with the help of fellow astronomer GeorgeBiddellAiry and others. An earlier edition had been published in 1833 but was...
influenced by Earth's motion. Similar experiments were conducted by GeorgeBiddellAiry (1871) by means of a telescope filled with water, and Éleuthère Mascart...
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