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Hugh Newall
(21 Jun 1857 - 22 Feb 1944)
English astronomer and physicist who held the first chair of astrophysics at Cambridge University. He used his father's 25-inch refractor Newall Telescope, for which he paid expenses to move it from Gateshead to Cambridge.
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Science Quotes by Hugh Newall (1 quote)
[About John Evershed] There is much in our medallist’s career which is a reminder of the scientific life of Sir William Huggins. They come from the same English neighbourhood and began as amateurs of the best kind. They both possess the same kind of scientific aptitude.
— Hugh Newall
Address, presenting the Gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society to Evershed, as quoted in F.J.M. Stratton, 'John Evershed', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Nov 1957), 3, 40.
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- 21 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Newall's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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