Isaac Roberts
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Isaac Roberts was a Welsh engineer and businessman best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae. He was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical
Roberts's tomb in Flaybrick Memorial Gardens
Starfield: Isaac Roberts's observatory and home in Crowborough, Sussex
Isaac Roberts' magnum opus is generally considered to be his picture of the Great Nebula in Andromeda, shown in this plate. It was photographed on 29 December 1888.
Dorothea Klumpke
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Dorothea Klumpke Roberts was an American astronomer. In 1893, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate degree at the Sorbonne University. She joined the Paris Observatory where her work consiste
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…Lancashire. Ellen Anne Roberts was buried in Liverpool on 30 March 1901. Her address was listed as Kennessee House, Maghull. Roberts married astronomer Dr Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942) in October 1901. They had met in 1896 at Vadsø in Norway while both were there to observe the total eclipse of the sun. Klumpke worked at…
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Theses submitted to the Faculty of Sciences of Paris for the degree of Doctor of Mathematical Sciences by Dorothea Klumpke
Tomb of Isaac Roberts in Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, Birkenhead, Merseyside