Ernest William Brown

Ernest William Brown
Ernest William Brown, from the American Mathematical Society
Born(1866-11-29)29 November 1866
Died22 July 1938(1938-07-22) (aged 71)
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
United States
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
Known forLunar theory
Celestial mechanics
AwardsRoyal Medal (1914)
James Craig Watson Medal (1937)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1897)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Astronomy
Doctoral advisorGeorge Howard Darwin
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Ernest William Brown FRS (29 November 1866 – 22 July 1938) 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.[1][2]

His life's work was the study of the Moon's motion (lunar theory) and the compilation of extremely accurate lunar tables. He also studied the motion of the planets and calculated the orbits of Trojan asteroids.

  1. ^ Schlesinger, Frank; Brouwer, Dirk. National Academy of Sciences - Biographical Memoirs, Ernest William Brown (PDF). Vol. 21. p. 243.
  2. ^ Darwin, C. G. (1940). "Ernest William Brown. 1866-1938". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (8): 18–66. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1940.0003. S2CID 176436586.

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