English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
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English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
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Herschel \Her"schel\, n. (Astron.) See {Uranus}.
Uranus \U"ra*nus\ (-n[u^]s), n. [L. Uranus, Gr. O'yrano`s Uranus, o'yrano`s heaven, sky. Cf. {Uranium}.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.
2. (Astron.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
Note: This planet has also been called {Herschel}, from Sir William Herschel, who discovered it in 1781, and who named it {Georgium Sidus}, in honor of George III., then King of England.
So now what is called for is an imaginative choice of chairman. Among those already on the board, one obvious candidate would be deputy chairman Herschel Post, an American so anglicised that a fellow board member had no idea Post was not English.
The English astronomer William Herschel discovered the seventh, Uranus, in 1781.
Not many US investment bankers are more anglicised than Lehman Brothers' Herschel Post (right).
Herschel Loveless, a former governor of Iowa, died Wednesday in Winchester, Va., at the age of 77.
As an extra added attraction, Herschel Walker will push a bobsled, and there'll be almost-nightly figure skating on TV. Get a hanky ready to weep with the winners in that one.
A respected patriarch of the denomination, the Rev. Herschel H. Hobbs, 80, of Oklahoma City, says the bitter struggle is hurting the Christian cause.
They have "become a booming problem" in the past year or so, says Herschel Elkins, head of the consumer-law section of the California attorney general's office.