1. Sir George Howard Darwin was an English barrister and astronomer, the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin.
16 Facts About George Darwin
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George Darwin is known for the harmonic analysis of the theory of tides.
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George H Darwin was born 9 July 1845 at Down House, Kent, the fifth child of biologist Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin.
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George Darwin graduated BA in mathematics in 1868, when he was placed second for the Smith's Prize and was appointed to a college fellowship.
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George Darwin was admitted to the bar in 1872, but returned to science.
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George Darwin conducted studies into the prevalence and health outcomes of contemporary first-cousin marriages in Great Britain.
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In 1883 Darwin became Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
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George Darwin studied tidal forces involving the Sun, Moon, and Earth, and formulated the fission theory of the Moon formation.
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George Darwin delivered their Bakerian Lecture in 1891 on the subject of "tidal prediction".
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George Darwin was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and won the Gold Medal of the RAS in 1892.
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George Darwin was elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in 1898.
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George Darwin was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1904.
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George Darwin received the degree of Doctor mathematicae from the Royal Frederick University in Oslo on 6 September 1902, when they celebrated the centennial of the birth of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.
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George Darwin married Martha du Puy, the daughter of Charles du Puy of Philadelphia, in 1884; his wife was a member of the Ladies Dining Society in Cambridge, with 11 other members.
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George and Maud Darwin bought Newnham Grange, Cambridge in 1885.
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George Darwin is buried in Trumpington Extension Cemetery in Cambridge with his son Leonard and his daughter Gwen, whilst his wife Lady Maud Darwin was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium; his brothers Sir Francis Darwin and Sir Horace Darwin and their respective wives are interred in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground.