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Gill, David

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Born Aberdeen, Scotland, 12 June 1843

Died London, England, 24 June 1914

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Gill, David. Reproduced from Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 91, no. 633 (Sept. 1915)

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  • Eddington, Arthur S. (1915). “Sir David Gill.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 75: 236–247.

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  • Murray, C. A. (1988). “David Gill and Celestial Photography.” In Mapping the Sky, edited by S. Débarbat, J. A. Eddy, H. K. Eichhorn, and A. R. Upgren, pp. 143–148. IAU Symposium No. 133. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

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  1. South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, Observatory, 7935, Cape Town, South Africa

    Ian S. Glass

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Glass, I.S. (2014). Gill, David. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_517

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