Institute of Astronomy

Biographies T - Z

Henry Taylor (??) Junior Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory 1856-57

Andrew David Thackeray (1910-1978) educated at Eton and Kings College Cambridge, Assistant Director of Solar Physics Observatory 1937-1948, worked at Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria 1948-74

John Titterton (1830?-1914) Photographer of Ely, took with Canon William Selwyn, photographs of the solar disc 1863-74

Sir Charles Todd (1826-1910) as Junior Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory 1847-54 he used the Northumberland Telescope to take a daguerreotype photograph of the Moon. He was later responsible for setting up the telegraph network in Australia.

Henry David Todd (??) Computer at the Cambridge Observatory 1859-60 and then Junior Assistant 1860-90, brother of Charles Todd

Samuel Vince (1749-1821) Plumian Professor: 1796-1821, published 'A Complete System of Astronomy' (1808)

Miss Anne Walker (1864-?) Computer at the Cambridge Observatory 1879-1903, she carried out the duties of an Observer, see ODNB article for Andrew Graham

Evan Gwyn Williams (1905-1940) Graduate of Trinity College, Junior Assistant Observer at S.P.O. 1936-7

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959) was an Observer in Meteorological Physics at the Solar Physics Observatory 1913-26, awarded Nobel Prize for Physics 1927 for invention of the cloud chamber

Robert Woodhouse (1773-1827) Plumian Professor: 1822-1827, first Director of the Cambridge Observatory 1824-1827

Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley (1906-1986) Senior Assistant and JCA Astronomer at Cambridge Observatory 1937-1939, later Astronomer Royal 1956-1971

Thomas Wilson Wormell (1903-1985) Observer in Meteorological Physics at Solar Physics Observatory 1926-46

T. Wright (??) Computer at the Cambridge Observatory 1875-81

G. G. Yates (??) Senior Assistant Observer, Solar Physics/Combined Observatories 1946-56

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