William Michael Herbert Greaves
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William Michael Herbert Greaves's Degrees
- Masters Physics University of Oxford
- Bachelors Physics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Michael Herbert Greaves FRS FREng FRSE was a British astronomer. He is most noted for his work on stellar spectrophotometry. Life He was born in Barbados in the West Indies the son of Dr E. C. Greaves, a physician trained at the University of Edinburgh. William Greaves was educated first at Lodge School and Codrington College, both in Barbados then travelled to England to study at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1919 and became a Fellow in 1922.
William Michael Herbert Greaves's Published Works
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- On the Recurrence of Magnetic Storms. (Plate 9.) (1929) (30)
- XLIII. On the solution of the representative differential equation of the triode oscillator (1923) (27)
- On the Stability of the Periodic States of the Triode Oscillator (1924) (17)
- Large Magnetic Storms and Large Sunspots (1928) (12)
- Magnetic Storms and Solar Activity, 1874 to 1927 (1928) (8)
- The Zero Point of the Greenwich Colour Temperature System (1934) (5)
- On a Certain Family of Periodic Solutions of Differential Equations, with an Application to the Triode Oscillator (1923) (5)
- The Short-period Erratics of Free Pendulum and Quartz Clocks (1943) (5)
- The continuous spectrum (1956) (4)
- The Solar System (1953) (4)
- Spectrophotometric Measures of Nova Herculis 1934 (1936) (4)
- Meeting of 1949 January 14 (1949) (4)
- Colour Temperature Variations of γ Cassiopeiæ, and the Problem of the “Yellow” B-Type Stars (1938) (3)
- Continuous Spectrum of Nova Herculis (1936) (3)
- The Colour Temperatures of Twenty-four Stars, suitable for use as Spectro-photometric Standards (1929) (3)
- The relative effective temperatures of twenty-two stars of early type (1927) (3)
- The Existence Theorem for certain Periodic Orbits in the Restricted Problem of Three Bodies (1922) (3)
- Spectrophotometric measurements of early type stars. II. Results for stars of type B1 (Summary of paper published in the Publications of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh) (1955) (2)
- Reports on the Progress of Astronomy (1948) (2)
- Report of the General Meeting of the Association, Held on Wednesday, 1935 February 27, at Sion College, Victoria Embankment, E.C. (1935) (2)
- Note on the Low Colour-Temperatures of some Early-Type Stars with Strong Ca+ Lines (1928) (1)
- The low Colour-Temperature of ζ Persei (Note to Dr. Kienle's paper) (1928) (1)
- The Influence of Atmospheric Dispersion on Photographic Determinations of Stellar Parallax (1922) (1)
- Meeting of 1948 May 14 (1948) (1)
- Note on Dr. Goldsbrough's Paper on “The Influence of Satellites upon the Form of Saturn's Ring.” (1922) (1)
- Preliminary note on the determination of effective stellar temperatures by the (1925) (1)
- The Problem of Disturbed Motion about the Equilateral Triangle Equilibriun Point and its Bearing on the Goldsbrough Theory of Saturn's Ring (1922) (1)
- On Long-Period Inequalities in the Movements of Asteroids whose Mean Motions are nearly half that of Mars (1922) (1)
- A Comparison between the Right Ascensions of the Second Greenwich Catalogue of Stars for 1925.0 and of the FK3 (1937) (1)
- Professor Brown's planetary theory (1930) (1)
- The Effect of Atmospheric Absorption in Stellar Spectrophotometry (1931) (1)
- The Solar Motion derived from Radial and from Transverse Velocities of Stars of Spectral Types F to M (1925) (1)
- Henry Crozier Plummer, 1875-1946 (1948) (1)
- The effect of the second-order terms in differential aberration on determinations of stellar parallax (1922) (1)
- The time factor in spectrophotometry (1936) (1)
- On the Behaviour of a Small Body within the Cassini Division of Saturn's Ring (1922) (1)
- Time Effects in Spectrophotometry (1936) (1)
- Meeting of 1948 April 9 (1948) (0)
- James Peter Rowland (1949) (0)
- Meeting of 1947 May 9 (1947) (0)
- Coil‐magnetometer and Earth‐inductor—A comparison of results obtained at the Abinger magnetic station of the Greenwich Royal Observatory (1938) (0)
- Anniversary Meeting of 1949 February 11 (1949) (0)
- Morgenwandeling, Fort Ahamednagar (0)
- Meeting of 1947 December 12 (1947) (0)
- Additional Meeting of 1948 October 29 in the rooms of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1948) (0)
- Meeting of 1947 March 14 (1947) (0)
- Meeting of 1948 March 12 (1948) (0)
- Some recent researches in Solar Physics: Hoyle, F.; Cambridge University Press. 12/6 net (1951) (0)
- History of Astronomy (1955) (0)
- The sun (Volume 1 of the solar system): University of Chicago Press/Cambridge University Press. $15/94s (1955) (0)
- Meeting of 1948 October 8 (1948) (0)
- Presentation of the Gold Medal to Professor Bertil Lindblad (1948) (0)
- Meeting of 1948 January 9 (1948) (0)
- Report of the Council to the Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Annual General Meeting of the Society (1949) (0)
- The Accretionary Origin of Comets (1954) (0)
- Meeting of 1947 October 10 (1947) (0)
- Election of Officers and Council (1938) (0)
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