PersonneLockyer, Norman (1836-1920)

Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836–1920) was an astronomer, and founder and editor of the British science journal Nature. An avid amateur astronomer, in 1868 Lockyer noticed a prominent line in the solar spectrum, that he identified with a new element he named helium. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1869, and Correspondent of the Paris Academy of Science in 1873 (astronomy section). In 1885 Lockyer was named to a new chair in astronomical physics at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, where he became Director of the Solar Physics Observatory in 1890. On Lockyer’s life and work see Meadows (2008), the DSB (Dingle 1973), and Wilkins (1994, 2004).

The exchange of letters between Poincaré and Lockyer concerns several subjects. In the first letter of the exchange, dating from January 1892, Lockyer asks Poincaré to verify the accuracy of his wife Winifred’s translation of the latter’s essay on the foundations of non-Euclidean geometry. During Poincaré’s career, three of his essays were translated into English for publication in Nature,11Poincaré 1892a, 1894, 1898. along with three letters to the editor, and one letter to A.A. Michelson, all published in the original French.22Poincaré 1892b, 1892c, 1892d, 1899. All four letters are annotated in Walter (2007); see  Poincaré à Tait - 1892-02-24, Poincaré à Tait - 1892-03-17, Poincaré à Tait - 1892-05, Poincaré à Michelson - 1899-04-27, respectively.

Références

  • H. Dingle (1973) Lockyer, Joseph Norman. See Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume 8: Jonathon Homer Lane–Pierre Joseph Macquer, Gillispie, pp. 440–443.
  • C. C. Gillispie (Ed.) (1973) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume 8: Jonathon Homer Lane–Pierre Joseph Macquer. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
  • A. J. Meadows (2008) Science and Controversy: A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer. 2e edition, Macmillan, London.
  • H. Poincaré (1892a) Non-Euclidian geometry. Nature 45, pp. 404–407. External Links: Link.
  • H. Poincaré (1892b) Poincaré’s ‘Thermodynamics’. Nature 45, pp. 414–415. External Links: Link.
  • H. Poincaré (1892c) Poincaré’s ‘Thermodynamics’. Nature 45, pp. 485. External Links: Link.
  • H. Poincaré (1892d) Poincaré’s Thermodynamics. Nature 46, pp. 76. External Links: Link.
  • H. Poincaré (1894) Poincaré on Maxwell and Hertz. Nature 50 (1279), pp. 8–11. External Links: Link.
  • H. Poincaré (1898) On the stability of the solar system. Nature 58 (1495), pp. 183–185. External Links: Link.
  • H. Poincaré (1899) Fourier’s series (letter to A.A. Michelson). Nature 60, pp. 52. External Links: Link.
  • S. A. Walter (Ed.) (2007) La correspondance d’Henri Poincaré, Volume 2: La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré et les physiciens, chimistes et ingénieurs. Birkhäuser, Basel. External Links: Link.
  • G. A. Wilkins (1994) Sir Norman Lockyer’s contributions to science. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 35, pp. 51–57. External Links: Link.
  • G. A. Wilkins (2004) The archives of the Norman Lockyer Observatory. Journal of Astronomical Data 10, pp. 153–162. External Links: Link.
 
 

Nom complet
Lockyer, Norman (1836-1920)
Prénom
Norman
Nom de famille
Lockyer
Adresse
Londres
Chapitre
Norman Lockyer
Date de naissance
1836-05-17
Date de décès
1920-08-16
Nationalité
Britannique
Lieu de naissance
Rugby (Angleterre)
Situation sociale et professionnelle
Scientifique
Éditeur
Fonctionnaire
Amateur
Académicien
Discipline
Astronomie
Physique
Lieu d'exercice
Londres
est membre de (groupe)
Royal Society
Description
Astronome britannique, créateur de la revue Nature

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