Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892
George B. Airy papers, 1824-1875.
Correspondence (327 items) with Sir J. F. W. Herschel, 1824-1875; letters (113) to Sir J. W. Lubbock, 1829-1860; miscellaneous letters (220).
Entered Trinity College Cambridge as a sizer, 1819. B. A. 1832 as Senior Wrangler and 1st Smith's Prizeman. Fellow of Trinity. He wrote mathematical works and was awarded the Copley Medal 1831. F. R. S. 1836. Lucasian Professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1826. Plumian professor of astronomy, Cambridge 1828. Astronomer Royal 1835-1881. 30th President of Royal Society 1871-1873. K. C. B. 1872.
Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871.
Lubbock, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1803-1865.
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