George Darwin
Sir
George Howard Darwin,
F.R.S. (
July 9 1845 –
December 7 1912) was a British
astronomer and
mathematician, the second son and fifth child of
Charles and
Emma Darwin.
He studied under
Charles Pritchard, went on to study at
Cambridge University, was admitted to the bar, but returned to science. In
1883 he became
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at
Cambridge University.
He studied
tidal forces involving the
Sun,
Moon, and
Earth.
He won the
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in
1892, and also later served as president of that organization.
Darwin married Martha (Maud) du Puy of
Philadelphia. They had two sons and two daughters:
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Gwen Raverat (
1885-
1957), artist.
*
Charles Galton Darwin (
1887-
1962), physicist.
* Margaret Elizabeth Darwin (
1890-
1974), married Sir
Geoffrey Keynes.
* William Robert Darwin (
1894-?)
*
*
"The Genesis of Double Stars" - by George Darwin, fom A.C. Seward's
Darwin and Modern Science (1909).
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details of correspondence
