Frederick William Herschel, was mainly known as Sir William Herschel. William Herschel was born on November 15, 1738. He was born in Hanover, Brunswick-Lüneburg. His father was named Isaac Herschel. His mother was named Anna Ilse Moritzen. He had nine other sibling. He had four sister and five brothers. His brothers were named Frantz Johann herschel, Johann Dietrich Herschel, Johann Heinrich Herschel, Heinrich Anton Jacob Herschel, and Johann Alexander Herschel. His sisters were named Caroline Herschel, Anna Christina Hersche, Maria Dorethea Herschel, and Sophie Elizabeth Herschel. His father was a military musician. He was also a music teacher and composer. His sister was a German astronomer. Sir William Herschel was an astronomer like his sister. Since his father was military musician, young William played in the same band as his father did. William left Germany for England in 1759. A couple years later his sister Caroline also moved to England. While she was in England, she followed her dreams to be a singer. During that time, William’s interest in astronomy grew. In March, 1781, William saw a small moving object that would slowly move across the sky. He thought it was a comet. Then he took further observation and noticed that the …show more content…
William made an experiment that would determine the temperature of different colors of sunlight that passed through a prism in 1800. In 1801, he made a term named “asteroids”. He says that the Milky Way was in a shape of a disk. He was then appointed to be a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1813. Then three years later he was knighted in 1816. In 1820, he was elected vice president of the Royal Astronomical Society. On August 25, 1822, William Herschel died in England. William died at the age of 83. When he passed away, they named the asteroid 2000 Herschel bears after him. Also the capital letter H in the symbol of Uranus is in his
He was born in Baltimore in 1748, but his story begins long before his birth. It started when his father’s family immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1680’s. His father just so happened to move to Maryland, where he met his wife, married her, and settled in Baltimore where William was to be born. William had many hard times and little schooling until he was ten, when his family moved to North Carolina.
The Ley family says they saw the object fly overhead before any of the occurrences later that night. Tim Ley and his son said, "When it finally got here and we realized this thing was coming right over us, we really started getting antsy.
...n Francisco, and the Victoria Institute of London, a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London and a member of the Pacific Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He received a degree in law (LL. D) from Willamette University in 1855 and the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (D. D.) from the University of the Pacific in 1876.28 Beyond practicing surgery and medicine, Wythe served as pastor of the Powell Street Methodist Church in San Francisco, found time to present lectures to the community, and record astronomical observation he viewed from the powerful telescope that he placed in his back yard.29 At the Cooper Medical College of San Francisco Dr. Wythe continued in the chair of histology until 1897 and was Professor Emeritus until the time of his passing at the age of 79 at his home in Oakland, California on October 14, 1901 after a long illness. 30
In the mid-nineteenth century, new developments in astronomy were expanding the field at an fast and exciting rate. The Mitchells were aware that the King of Denmark awarded a gold metal to anyone who discovered a "telescopic" comet. No one in America had won that award yet.
Biography: Paragraph 1: Walter Whitman Jr. born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, Long Island, New York and his mother name was Louisa Vanvesor and she was Dutch and his father Walter Whitman Sr. from England both parents were farmers they had 7 kids in all but one died before he was named. Three were named after presidents they name were Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson the rest were named Jesse and Edward.
Uranus was discovered in 1781 by Sir William Herschel. He at first wanted to name the planet Sidus Georgium which is latin for George’s star after the king of England. Another astronomer Johann Bode advised Herschel against it and suggested instead that he use a name from Greco-Roman mythology like all other planets. So Uranus was given its name which is the father of Saturn.
Herschel walker was born in March 3 1962 in Wrightsville Georgia. Herschel was one of the seven children his mother and father. Herschel mother Christine Walker called him the runt of the family because he was least athletic of his brother and sisters. As a child he was overweight and had a speech impediment Walker's mother taught him not to use these problems as excuses in life.
Comets and asteroids. They are some of the first celestial bodies that humans observed and truly thought about. From ancient cultures interpreting these near-Earth objects as signs of disaster, to 18th century Europeans studying their paths, to even the extinction of the dinosaurs, comets and asteroids have always been prevalent in the majority of Earth’s history. These objects have intrigued the human race for generations, and continue to do so today. These similar subjects of fascination have many unique and interesting characteristics and a rich history with Earth.
Annelies Frank was born in June of 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She had one sister, Margot, who was three years older than her. Her parents were Otto and Edith Frank. Otto worked in his family’s bank while Edith stayed home to watch Anne and her sister. They were a Jewish family along with 6 million others trying to escape the horrific dictator, Adolf Hitler.
Harvey also revolutionized the means by which science was performed through the use of innovative, investigational techniques. William Harvey became a well-known name in science because he made profound accomplishments that changed the way scientists performed and the way people viewed the human body. William Harvey was born on April 1, 1578, in Folkestone, England. At the age of sixteen, Harvey enrolled in Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1597. He went on to study medicine under Hieronymus Fabricius at the University of Padua in Italy.
'A discovery so unexpected could only have singular circumstances, for it was not due to an astronomer and the marvelous telescope…was not the work of an optician; it is Mr. Herschel, a [German] musician, to whom we owe the knowledge of this seventh principal planet.' (Hunt, 35)
Franz Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, on April 1, 1732, to Mathias and Anna Maria Koller Haydn. Joseph Haydn's parents had twelve children, but, sadly, six of them died during infancy. His surviving siblings included two brothers, Johann Evangelist and Johann Michael, and three sisters, Anna Maria Franziska, Anna Maria, and Anna Katharina. Many references give March 31 as Haydn's birthday, but official records disprove this. It is rumored that his brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool.
Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche was born October 15, 1844 in Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia. His name comes from the Prussian King, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, because he was born the same day of the King's 49th birthday. Looking back on Nietzsche's life, it is clear that his family set the stage for who he would become, but not in the way they would have liked to. Nietzsche's father, uncle, and grandfathers were all Lutheran ministers. Religion played a major role in Nietzsche's early life and the life of his family. However, being in the constant presence of religious though resulted in Nietzsche becoming very critical of religion. His harsh words for religion would go on to be published in many of his works during his career. When Nietzsche was five, his father died insane and the death of his two-year-old brother shortly followed. His father's death has led many to speculate that the cause for Nietzsche's future insanity was hereditary.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born to his parents, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio, on March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy. His father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, started working as a barber, but eventually became a professional violinist. Camilla Calicchio was the daughter of a tailor, and married Giovanni Vivaldi in 1676. Antonio was the oldest of nine children. His father taught him to be a violinist and took young Vivaldi on a tour of Venice playing the violin, similar to himself and Mozart (Kolneder 153).