Frank Watson Dyson

Sir Frank Watson Dyson ( born January 8, 1868 in Measham Ashby -de- la- Zouch, Leicestershire, England; † May 25, 1939 at sea near Cape Town ) was an English astronomer.

Dyson lived from 1894 to 1906 in Blackheath, London. He was from 1905 to 1910 Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and 1910-1933 Astronomer Royal and also the director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. In 1928 he developed a new freely oscillating clock, reducing the time measurement on the Prime Meridian at Greenwich Observatory was precise.

In 1915 he was knighted for Knight and Knight Commander appointed in 1926 (KBE ). In 1901 he was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society, in 1921, the Royal Medal awarded him. In 1922 he was awarded the Bruce Medal in 1925 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1918 he became a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. In honor of the Dyson Dyson craters were named on the Moon and the asteroid ( 1241 ) Dysona after him.

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