Astronomers who have lived in Cambridge or have been to Cambridge university help req please

& Thanks for your help

Andy


"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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Andy wrote:

Hi All,

any of you clever souls help me along please

I am writing an article for the local paper and was wondering how many
eminent astronomers have lived in Cambridge or been to Cambridge Uni.

The few I have so far a

John Couch Adams,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Isaac Newton
Martin Rees

Anyone ideas on others or web links

How long do they have to have lived there to qualify? I would hazard a
guess that almost every famous modern astrophysicist has been there
overnight.

However, assuming a few years to be a required residence period you can
have:

John Couch Adams
Sir George Biddle Airy
Sir Hermann Bondi
James Challis
John Herschel
Sir Fred Hoyle
Donald Lynden-Bell
Zdenek Kopal
Sir Martin Ryle

more recently

Carlos Frenk
Stephen Hawking
Malcolm Longair
Neil Turok

There are bound to be many more depending on what cutoff criterion you
set. You should be able to get one for every letter of the alphabet with
a bit of effort! Some famous astrophysicists are famous only among
astronomers and/or cosmologists. One online resource incomplete is:

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/enc...stronomers.htm
(covers all countries)

Regards,
Martin Brown

On or about 2005-08-03,
Andy illuminated us with:
Hi All,

any of you clever souls help me along please

I am writing an article for the local paper and was wondering how many
eminent astronomers have lived in Cambridge or been to Cambridge Uni.

Have you tried asking the IoA
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/contact/ or Cavendish Astrophysics
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/ or the CAA
http://www.caa-cambridge.co.uk/contacts.html?

--
Mark
Real email address | If you're passed on the left...
is mark at | you're in the wrong lane.
ayliffe dot org |

funnily enough I am giving the CAA a lecture this month as their August
speaker has drooped out

thanks for the info

Andy


"Mark Ayliffe" wrote in message
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On or about 2005-08-03,
Andy illuminated us with:
Hi All,

any of you clever souls help me along please

I am writing an article for the local paper and was wondering how many
eminent astronomers have lived in Cambridge or been to Cambridge Uni.

Have you tried asking the IoA
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/contact/ or Cavendish Astrophysics
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/ or the CAA
http://www.caa-cambridge.co.uk/contacts.html?

--
Mark
Real email address | If you're passed on the
left...
is mark at | you're in the wrong lane.
ayliffe dot org |

On or about 2005-08-04,
Andy illuminated us with:
funnily enough I am giving the CAA a lecture this month as their August
speaker has drooped out
^^^^^^^
!

I really must get around to wandering along to those meetings, living not
only in Cambridge but near enough that it's a bit of a toss up whether to
cycle there or walk!

--
Mark
Real email address | Giraffiti:
is mark at | Concrete art, spray-painted very, very high.
ayliffe dot org |

Be good to meet you sometime then

cheers

Andy

I live just outside Cambridge just off the A14 near the Science Park


"Mark Ayliffe" wrote in message
...
On or about 2005-08-04,
Andy illuminated us with:
funnily enough I am giving the CAA a lecture this month as their August
speaker has drooped out
^^^^^^^
!

I really must get around to wandering along to those meetings, living not
only in Cambridge but near enough that it's a bit of a toss up whether to
cycle there or walk!

--
Mark
Real email address | Giraffiti:
is mark at | Concrete art, spray-painted very, very
high.
ayliffe dot org |

On or about 2005-08-04,
Andy illuminated us with:
Be good to meet you sometime then

cheers

Andy

I live just outside Cambridge just off the A14 near the Science Park

Milton? i.e. well within a mile of where I'm sitting now! (SJIC) And there's
another incumbent of this group in that fair village if you've not already
spotted him.

--
Mark
Real email address |
is mark at | Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
ayliffe dot org |

and "drooped" seemd to be the operative word. I must get smaller fingers to
cope with these keys EG

Cheers


"Mark Ayliffe" wrote in message
...
On or about 2005-08-04,
Andy illuminated us with:
funnily enough I am giving the CAA a lecture this month as their August
speaker has drooped out
^^^^^^^
!

I really must get around to wandering along to those meetings, living not
only in Cambridge but near enough that it's a bit of a toss up whether to
cycle there or walk!

--
Mark
Real email address | Giraffiti:
is mark at | Concrete art, spray-painted very, very
high.
ayliffe dot org |

"Andy" wrote in message
...

John Couch Adams,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Isaac Newton
Martin Rees

Seeing that you've listed Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
how about Anthony Hewish?

I remember him lecturing us on some aspect of physics in 1960.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

Thanks everyone

very much appreciated

Andy


"Malcolm Stewart" wrote in
message ...
"Andy" wrote in message
...

John Couch Adams,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Isaac Newton
Martin Rees

Seeing that you've listed Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
how about Anthony Hewish?

I remember him lecturing us on some aspect of physics in 1960.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

JRS: In article , dated
Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:10:13, seen in news:uk.sci.astronomy, Andy
posted :

I am writing an article for the local paper and was wondering how many
eminent astronomers have lived in Cambridge or been to Cambridge Uni.

The few I have so far a

John Couch Adams,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Isaac Newton
Martin Rees

Mr A R Green BSc(Hons), FRAS

The RAS might be a good place to ask. Or whatever is left of Cambridge
observatories.

Ryle, Hoyle, Hewish, Graham-Smith, Sciama if his field counts.

But you need to define "been to" better. Do you include undergraduates,
postgraduates, teaching staff, research staff, eminent visitors on
sabbatical, recipients of honorary degrees, those just visiting, ... ?
I've seen John Glenn there.

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