Alexander Stewart Herschel
- Alexander Stewart Herschel
Alexander Stewart Herschel (February 5 1836 – June 18 1907) was a British astronomer, born in Feldhausen, South Africa.
He was the son of John Herschel and the grandson of William Herschel. Although much less well known than either of them, he did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy. He also worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers.
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* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/JRASC/0074//0000279.000.html Biography: JRASC 74 (1980) 279]
* [http://www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/ Herschel Museum of Astronomy]
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