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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers pp 151–152Cite as

Ball, Robert Stawell

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BornDublin, Ireland, 1 July 1840

DiedCambridge, England, 25 November 1913

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Ball, Robert Stawell. Courtesy of History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries

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  • Knobel, E. B. (1915). “Robert Stawell Ball.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 75: 230–236.

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  • Paterson, John A. (1916). “Sir Robert Ball: The Astronomer, the Mathematician and the Man.” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 10: 42–63.

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  • Rambaut, A. A. (1914). “Sir Robert Stawell Ball.” Observatory 37: 35–41.

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  1. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Marché, J.D. (2014). Ball, Robert Stawell. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_104

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