Alexander Stewart Herschel
Alexander Stewart Herschel, DCL, FRS (5 February 1836 – 18 June 1907) was a British astronomer.
Alexander Stewart Herschel | |
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| Born | 5 February 1836 Feldhausen, near Cape Town, British Cape Colony (today South Africa) |
| Died | 18 June 1907 (aged 71) Slough, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Spouse | None |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronomy, physics |
| Institutions | Royal School of Mines, Andersonian University, University of Durham |
Although much less well known than his grandfather William Herschel or his father John Herschel, he did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy. He also worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after Herschel due to his pioneering work on Hamilton's Icosian game.
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