Harold Knox-Shaw
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British astronomer
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Harold Knox-Shaw's Degrees
- Masters Physics University of Oxford
- Bachelors Physics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harold Knox-Shaw was an English astronomer. He was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was the oldest of four siblings. During his youth he earned scholarships to Wellington College in Berkshire and to Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1907 ranked as Sixth Wrangler. A year following his graduation he became an assistant at the Khedivial Astronomical Observatory in Helwan, Egypt. He was elected Fellow of the Society in 1908. In 1910 he became the first to photograph Halley's comet from this site.
Harold Knox-Shaw's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Radcliffe Observatory (1934) (6)
- The Radcliffe catalogue of proper motions in the selected areas 1 to 115 (1934) (6)
- The observations of the reverend Thomas Hornsby, D.D. made with the transit instrument and quadrant at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford in the years 1774 to 1798 (1932) (3)
- The inclinations of spiral nebul to the line of sight (1938) (3)
- Observations of Solar Radiation, 1915-1921 (1921) (2)
- Note on Photographic Magnitude Equation (1927) (1)
- Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria (1937) (1)
- Sunset and latitude (1920) (1)
- Observations of variable stars in the Selected Areas 1–115 (1934) (1)
- Note on Errors in Time-Determination as shown by Comparison of W/T Time-Signals (1925) (0)
- Meeting of 1932 May 13 (1932) (0)
- 1932 February 12 Annual General Meeting (1932) (0)
- Error in a Recent Paper on Proper Motions (1935) (0)
- Further Positions of Halley's Comet (1911) (0)
- Meeting of 1933 Janauary 13 (1933) (0)
- Hornsby's Observations of Saturn, 1774–1779 and 1790–1797 (1935) (0)
- The Longitude of the Radcliffe Observatory (1927) (0)
- Meeting of 1932 December 9 (1932) (0)
- The Tavistock Theodolite: Discussion (1929) (0)
- The Prismatic Astrolabe (1919) (0)
- Magnitudes and Colours of O- and Early B-Type Stars South of −35° Declination (1942) (0)
- Meeting of 1936 March 13 (1936) (0)
- Observations of Brook's Comet (1911c) (1912) (0)
- Observations of the Transit of Mercury, 1927 November 10, made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford (1927) (0)
- Note on the Riefler Clock (1915) (0)
- Atmospheric Conditions at the Site for the Radcliffe Observatory Near Pretoria (1935) (0)
- Meeting of 1932 November 11 (1932) (0)
- Meeting of 1932 June 10 (1932) (0)
- Meeting of 1932 March 11 (1932) (0)
- Preliminary Note on the Variable Nebula (N.G.C. 6729) in Corona Australis (1915) (0)
- A Handbook of the Prismatic Astrolabe (0)
- Society Business: Presidential address delivered by, on the award of the Gold Medal to Dr. R. G. Aitken (1932) (0)
- Hubble's Variable Nebula, N.G.C. 2261 (1920) (0)
- Total Solar Eclipse of I927 June 29: Report of the Oxford Expedition to Southport. : (Plate 13.) (1927) (0)
- Address Delivered by the President, Dr. H. Knox-Shaw, on the Distances and Motions of the Extra-Galactic Nebulœ (1933) (0)
- Meeting of 1931 December 11 (1931) (0)
- Meeting of 1932 April 8 (1932) (0)
- Observations of the Nuclei of Mellish's Comet (1915a) (1915) (0)
- An Analysis of the Radcliffe Proper Motions in the Selected Areas (1934) (0)
- Faint Stars in the Selected Areas with Large Proper Motion. Revised List from the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford (1926) (0)
- The election by the Council of the following Fellows was duly confirmed (1931) (0)
- Meeting of 1932 January 8 (1932) (0)
- Observations of Wireless Time Signals, 1923 July to 1924 June (1924) (0)
- Report on the Astronomical Positions of El Daba'a, Mersa Matrh, Baqbaq, Sollm, and Siwa (1912) (0)
- Apology to a blink-microscope (1934) (0)
- Hornsby's Observations of Uranus, 1790–1798 (1933) (0)
- The Variable Nebula (N.G.C. 6729) in Corona Australis and the Stars in Its Neighbourhood (1920) (0)
- A variable star in Hercules (0)
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