Simon Newcomb

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academic astronomer human mathematician

Simon Newcomb was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician renowned for his work in celestial mechanics, astronomical constants, and early studies of what became known as Benford's law.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → astronomer → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Copley Medal → Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society →
countryOfCitizenship	Canada → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1835-03-12 →
dateOfDeath	1909-07-11 →
educatedAt	Harvard University →
employer	Johns Hopkins University → United States Naval Observatory →
familyName	Newcomb →
fieldOfWork	astronomical constants → astronomy → celestial mechanics → economics → mathematical analysis → mathematics → statistics →
givenName	Simon →
influenced	development of modern celestial mechanics →
influencedBy	Pierre-Simon Laplace → Urbain Le Verrier →
knownFor	Newcomb tables of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars → Newcomb–Benford law → determination of astronomical constants → early formulation of Benford's law → revisions of planetary and lunar theories → work on celestial mechanics → work on the speed of light →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Philosophical Society → National Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
name	Simon Newcomb →
notableWork	A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy → Popular Astronomy → Principles of Political Economy → Tables of the Four Inner Planets → Tables of the Sun →
occupation	astronomer → mathematician → professor →
placeOfBirth	Wallace, Nova Scotia →
placeOfDeath	Washington, D.C. →
positionHeld	Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University → Superintendent of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac →
religion	agnosticism →
residence	Baltimore, Maryland → Washington, D.C. →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
John Charles Fields →	doctoralAdvisor
American Astronomical Society →	foundedBy
Simon Newcomb →	name