William Michael Herbert Greaves | |
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| Born | (1897-09-10)10 September 1897 |
| Died | 24 December 1955(1955-12-24) (aged 58) |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Spouse | Caroline Grace Kitto.[3] |
| Children | George Richard Herbert Greaves[citation needed] |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] FREng[2] (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronomy |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
William Michael Herbert Greaves (10 September 1897 – 24 December 1955) was a Britishastronomer.[4][5]He is most noted for his work on stellarspectrophotometry.
He was born inBarbados in the West Indies the son of Dr E. C. Greaves, a physician trained at theUniversity of Edinburgh. William Greaves was educated first at Lodge School andCodrington College, both in Barbados then travelled to England to study atSt. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1919 and became a Fellow in 1922.
He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Astronomical Society in 1921.
From 1924 until 1938 he was the chief assistant at theRoyal Observatory, Greenwich.[4] In 1938 he becameAstronomer Royal for Scotland, and in 1939 he was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers wereJames Pickering Kendall,Max Born,Edmund Dymond,Ruric Wrigley,Edwin Arthur Baker and SirEdmund Taylor Whittaker. He served as the Society's Secretary 1940 to 1945 and Vice President 1946 to 1949.[6]
He remained Astronomer Royal until 1955, and was Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh for the same period. In 1943 he was elected aFellow of the Royal Society.[1] From 1947 until 1949 he was president of theRoyal Astronomical Society.[4]
He died in the Blackford district of Edinburgh on 24 December 1955.
In 1926 he married Caroline Grace Kitto[3]., and the couple had a son, George Richard Herbert Greaves (1941-2008) who became Reader in Mathematics atCardiff University.
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