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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

English mathematician and astronomer

Died when: 80 years 32 days (961 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher FRS FRSE FRAS (5 November 1848, Lewisham – 7 December 1928, Cambridge), son of James Glaisher and Cecilia Glaisher, was a prolific English mathematician and astronomer.

His large collection of (mostly) English ceramics was mostly left to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.


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