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Alexander Stewart Herschel

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South African born British astronomer

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According to Wikipedia, Alexander Stewart Herschel, DCL, FRS was a British astronomer. Although much less well known than his grandfather William Herschel or his father John Herschel, he did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy. He also worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after Herschel due to his pioneering work on Hamilton's Icosian game.

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