biography
pronunciation:
[lamont]
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| lived:
| (1805–79)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, UK. He took German nationality, and became director of Bogenhausen Observatory in 1835. He was appointed professor of astronomy at Munich, and is noted for discovering that the magnetic field of the Earth fluctuates in a period of over 10 years. His best-known work is Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus (1849, Handbook of Terrestrial Magnetism). |
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