biography
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| lived:
| (1814–95)
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| biography:
| Astronomer and mathematician, born in Harford, Maryland, USA. He became professor of mathematics at Delaware (1851) and at Indiana (1856). He explained the unequal distribution of asteroids in the asteroid belt as a result of the influence of Jupiter. These interruptions became known as Kirkwood gaps. |
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