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Born Cushendun, Co. Antrim, (Northern Ireland), 6 February 1865
Died London, England, 20 September 1939
Andrew Crommelin is perhaps best remembered for his accurate prediction of the return of comet 1P/Halley in 1910.
Crommelin was born in a family of French extraction in Ireland, a descendent of the founder of the Irish linen industry in Ulster. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College Cambridge, graduating in 1886. For several years, Crommelin served on the staff at Lancing College, during which time he continued to pursue observational astronomy, his avocational interest since childhood. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society [RAS] in 1888.
In 1891, Crommelin joined the staff of Greenwich Observatory as a regular observer with the transit circle, the Airy altazimuth, and the Sheepshanks equatorial telescopes. Over time, he became expert in...
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Eddington, A. S. (1919). “The Total Eclipse of 1919 May 29 and the Influence of Gravitation on Light.” Observatory 42: 119–122.
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Williams, T.R. (2007). Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_316
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