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Copeland, Ralph

Copeland, Ralph

https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U184925
Published online: 01 December 2007

PhD; FRAS, FRSE

Born 3 Sept. 1837; died 27 Oct. 1905

Astronomer-Royal for Scotland from 1889; Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, from 1889

Education

University of Göttingen

Career

Served on second German Arctic Expedition, 1869–70

Address

Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh

More on this topic

Copeland, Ralph (1837–1905), astronomer in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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date: 08 September 2024