Everything about William Michael Herbert Greaves totally explained
William Michael Herbert Greaves (
10 September 1897 –
24 December 1955) was a
British astronomer.
He was born in
Barbados, West Indies to Dr. E. C. Greaves, a medical doctor trained at
Edinburgh University. William Greaves was educated first at Lodge School and
Codrington College in Barbados then travelled to England to study at
St. John's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1922.
He is most noted for his work on stellar spectro-
photometry.
He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Astronomical Society in
1921, and from
1924 until
1938 he was the chief assistant at the RAS. In
1938 he became
Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and in
1939 he was elected as a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. He remained Astronomer Royal until
1955, and was Regius Professor of Astronomy at Edinburgh University for the same period. In
1943 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society. From
1947 until
1949 he was president of the
Royal Astronomical Society.
In
1926 he married Caroline Grace, and the couple had a son.
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