John Nelson Stockwell
American astronomer and mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Nelson Robin Stockwell was an American astronomer and mathematician. Life and Work John Nelson Stockwell grew up with an uncle and aunt on a farm in Brecksville, Ohio. He showed early mathematical talent and became interested in astronomy at the age of 12, when he experienced his first lunar eclipse. Largely self-taught, he acquired outstanding mathematical knowledge and skill. From 1854 he worked as a human computer for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey under Benjamin Apthorp Gould, with whom he had been friends for decades. In 1861 he was appointed to a similar position at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. In 1876 Stockwell earned a Ph.D. at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
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