Ernest William Brown
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 86 years ago |
| Date of birth | November 29,1866 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Kingston Upon Hull |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | July 22,1938 |
| Died | New Haven |
| Connecticut | |
| United States | |
| Known for | Lunar theory |
| Celestial mechanics | |
| Job | Astronomer |
| Mathematician | |
| Education | Christ's College Cambridge |
| East Riding College | |
| Books | Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
| An Introductory Treatise on the Lunar Theory | |
| Planetary Theory | |
| Biographical memoir of George William Hill 1838-1914 | |
| The Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Due to the Direct Action of the Planets: An Essay which Obtained the Adams Prize in the University of Cambridge for the Year 1907 | |
| The History of Mathematics | |
| Planetary Theory - Scholar's Choice Edition | |
| An Introductory Treatise on the Lunar Theory - Scholar's Choice Edition | |
| Scientific Papers: Supplementary volume, containing biographical memoirs by Sir Francis Darwin and Professor E. W. Brown, lectures on Hill's lunar theory, etc. Ed, by F. J. M. Stratton. . . and J. Jackson. 1916 | |
| Planting in Uganda: Coffee, Para Rubber, Cocoa . . . | |
| Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Bruce Medal | |
| James Craig Watson Medal | |
| Adams Prize | |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship | |
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| ID | 555599 |
Ernest William Brown Life story
Ernest William Brown FRS was an English mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923. His life's work was the study of the Moon's motion and the compilation of extremely accurate lunar tables.
