Edmond Halley
Physicist, Astronomer
1656 – 1742
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Who was Edmond Halley?
Edmond Halley, FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed.
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1656
Haggerston - Religion
- Anglicanism
- Atheism
- Nationality
- England
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- The Queen's College, Oxford
- University of Oxford
- St Paul's School, London
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Jan 14, 1742
Greenwich
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on July 23, 2013
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