Frank Watson Dyson

Sir Frank Watson Dyson (January 8th 1868 - May 25th 1939) is a British astronomer .

Dyson is born with Measham, close to Ashby-with-the-Zouch in England. He studies with Halifax then astronomy and mathematics with the Université of Cambridge. He is Astronomer Royal for Scotland of 1905 with 1910 and Astronomer Royal of 1910 with 1933. He is made knight in 1915. He dies during a voyage year Australia at the time of his return in England in 1939.

He is notable for his studies of the solar eclipses, is an authority in Spectroscopie of the solar Couronne and Chromosphère. Its observations of the solar eclipse (Brazil, 1809) confirms the theory of the General relativity of the effect of the Gravité on the Lumière.

Frank Dyson does not have a report/ratio of relationship with Freeman Dyson however Freeman Dyson credits its homonym to have waked up its interest for astronomy whereas being child work of Sir Dyson was evoked by its family.

Dyson receives the Médaille Bruce in 1922 and the Gold medal of Royal Astronomical Society in 1925. A crater on the the Moon bears its name as well as the Astéroïde (1241) Dysona. A commemorative plaque exists 6 Vanbrugh Hill, Blackheath, London, house or he lived of 1894 with 1906.

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biography for its medal Bruce
Bruce medal: PASP ''' 34 ''' (1922) 2
gold medal of the SHORT-NAP CLOTH: MNRAS ''' 85 ''' (1925) 672

Obituaries

Monthly Notes off the Royal Astronomical Society ''' 100 ''' (1940) 238
The Observatory ''' 62 ''' (1939) 179
Publications off the Astronomical Society off the Pacific ''' 51 ''' (1939) 336

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