Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer KCB FRS (17 May 1836 – 16 August 1920) was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, ...
Norman Lockyer
Scientist and astronomer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer KCB FRS was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the... Wikipedia
Born: May 17, 1836, Rugby, United Kingdom
Died: August 16, 1920 (age 84 years), Salcombe Regis, United Kingdom
Discovered: Helium
Children: William James Stewart Lockyer
Awards: Rumford Medal (1874) and Janssen Medal (1889)
Partner: Thomazine Mary Lockyer (1903–)
May 13, 2024 · Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer was a British astronomer who in 1868 discovered in the Sun's atmosphere a previously unknown element that he named ...
Joseph Norman Lockyer was born in Rugby, England, on May 17, 1836. He started working as a civil servant and pursued his interest in astronomy on an amateur ...
The story of Norman Lockyer, an amateur astronomer who discovered the first and only element to be identified outside Earth and went on to become a scientific ...
May 17, 2019 · Norman Lockyer, an English astronomer, was born May 17, 1836. Lockyer was fascinated by the new science of spectroscopy, invented in 1859, ...
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For Lockyer, it was only in March of 1895, 26 years after Lockyer and Stewart named helium after a gas hidden in the sun, that a Scottish Chemist named William ...
Sir (Joseph) Norman Lockyer. (1836-1920), Astronomer and journal editor. Sitter in 5 portraits. Lockyer was an English scientist and astronomer who in 1868 ...
Lockyer became Professor of Astronomical Physics at NSS and Director of the Solar Physics Observatory (SPO). 1901, Sir Norman Lockyer (aged 65) retired from NSS ...
Throughout his career he worked with unceasing energy for the advancement of natural knowledge, and his spectroscopic researches, as well as his imaginative ...