biography
pronunciation:
[sabin]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1788–1883)
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| biography:
| Physicist, astronomer, and explorer, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Marlow and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, was commissioned in the Royal Artillery, and served until 1877, retiring as a general. He was appointed astronomer on John Ross's expedition to find the Northwest Passage (1818) and on Parry's Arctic expedition (1819–20). He conducted valuable pendulum experiments to determine the shape of the Earth at Spitzbergen and in tropical Africa (1821–3), and devoted the rest of his life to work on terrestrial magnetism, discovering a relationship between sunspots and magnetic disturbances on Earth. |
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