Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in Massachusetts, where the latter was teaching.
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- Born in
- Wallace
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Bruce Medal🏆 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Benjamin Peirce
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Henry Ludwell Moore
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1835
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Birth1909
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