biography
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Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1836–1920)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, C England, UK. As a clerk in the War Office (1857–75) he detected and named helium in the Sun's chromosphere (1868), a generation before William Ramsay found it on Earth. He worked in the government science and art department (1875–90), started and edited Nature (1869–1920), and was professor of astronomical physics at the Royal College of Science (1908–13). He was knighted in 1897. |
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