William Herbert Steavenson (1894-1975),British amateur astronomer and surgeon. He was blinded in his right eye in a childhood accident. Steaveson began using a telescope at the age of 13,discovering a comet in 1911 and being elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1912 aged 17. He was an expert on telescope optics,the author of several books on astronomy,Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College (1946-1964),and for 30 years astronomy correspondent for The Times. Here,Steaveson is seen with the Northumberland Equatoria (telescope at left) at Cambridge,where he lived in the period 1945-1960. He was awarded the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1928),and was its President (1957-1959) | |
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