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  2. Caroline Herschel - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. William Herschel - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of women astronomers - Wikipedia

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    Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), German astronomer; Elisabeth Hevelius (1647–1693), Polish astronomer; Jacqueline Hewitt (born 1958), American astrophysicist;

  5. Portal : History of science/Selected anniversaries/March

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    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)

  6. List of women innovators and inventors by country - Wikipedia

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    Caroline Eichler (1808/9–1843), leg prosthesis, hand prosthesis; Judith Esser-Mittag (born 1921), applicator-free tampon; Marga Faulstich (1915–1998), optical glass [4] Amelia Freund (1824–1887), cooking stove; Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), astronomer; Sonja de Lennart (born 1920), Capri pants; Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972), nuclear ...

  7. Herschel family - Wikipedia

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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), ...

  8. List of female scientists before the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. List of people from Bath - Wikipedia

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    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.