John Evershed CIE FRS FRAS was an English astronomer.
10 Facts About John Evershed
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John Evershed was the first to observe radial motions in sunspots, a phenomenon now known as the Evershed effect.
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John Evershed made the discovery which bears his name while at Kodaikanal Observatory in 1909.
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John Evershed continued to study the wave-lengths of H and K lines in prominences, giving values of the solar rotation at high levels in different latitudes and at different phases of the solar cycle.
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John Evershed directed its Solar Spectroscopy Section and Spectroscopic Section.
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In 1894 Evershed was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, in 1918 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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John Evershed was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1915.
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John Evershed was awarded as a Companion of the Indian Empire on his retirement in 1923.
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John Evershed married fellow astronomer Mary Acworth Orr John Evershed on 4 September 1906 at Claughton near Scarborough, Yorkshire.
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John Evershed died in Ewhurst, Surrey on 17 November 1956.