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Caroline Lucretia Herschel was born in the town of Hanover Germany on 16 March 1750. She was the eighth child and fourth daughter of Isaak Herschel (1707–1767), a self-taught oboist, and his wife, Anna Ilse Moritzen (1710–1789).
Caroline Herschel's eight comets were published between 28 August 1782 to 5 February 1787. Five of her comets were published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . William was even summoned to Windsor Castle to demonstrate Caroline's comet to the royal family.
Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), German astronomer; Elisabeth Hevelius (1647–1693), Polish astronomer; Jacqueline Hewitt (born 1958), American astrophysicist;
1750 - Birth of Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (d. 1848) 1789 - Birth of Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854) 1794 - Birth of Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881) 1846 - Birth of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927) 1851 - Birth of Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
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The Herschel family is a famous Anglo-German family of astronomers who lived from the 18th to the 20th century. [1] ... Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), ...
Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), German astronomer active in England; Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins (1848–1915), British astronomer; Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), American astronomer [1]: 170 Annie Russell Maunder (1868–1947), Irish astronomer; Antonia Caetana Maury (1866–1952), American astronomer [1]: 195
Caroline Herschel (1750–1848) – astronomer who discovered several comets. William Herschel (1738–1822) – astronomer, discoverer of Uranus and musician [ 100 ] William Lonsdale (1794–1871) – English geologist and palaeontologist.