Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer KCB FRS (– 16 August ) was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. One of the most Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, a known member of the Fellow of the Royal Society was born on . He was an English scientist and astronomer, with works of Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff on spectroscopic work inspired him so much that he decided to venture into spectral studies as well as his traditional astronomy studies.
(–84). British radio astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (born , Rugby, Warwickshire, Eng.—died Aug. 16, , Salcombe Regis, Devon) was a British astronomer who in discovered in the Sun’s atmosphere a previously unknown element that he named helium after Hēlios, the Greek name for the Sun and the Sun god.
Sir (Joseph) Norman Lockyer. (), Joseph Norman Lockyer was born in Rugby, England, on . He started working as a civil servant and pursued his interest in astronomy on an amateur basis. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on Ma, and his rising reputation as a solar physicist led him to be appointed in Director of the Solar Physics.
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer Lockyer, Joseph Norman (b. Rugby, England, 17 May ; d. Salcombe Regis, England, 16 August ) astrophysics. Lockyer came from a middle-class family, derived, it was believed, from early Celtic immigrants from France into England.
Norman Lockyer played a central Sir Norman Lockyer was a talented solar observer who used the newly invented spectroscope to examine the properties of the Sun’s component parts. Lockyer is remembered for the discovery of helium in the solar spectrum (later found on the Earth) and as the founding editor of the prestigious journal Nature.
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (– 16 August ) was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature.
Norman Lockyer died on Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, a known member of the Fellow of the Royal Society was born on May 17, He was an English scientist and astronomer, with works of Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff on spectroscopic work inspired him so much that he decided to venture into spectral studies as well as his traditional astronomy studies.