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Charles Piazzi Smyth
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Charles Piazzi Smyth was an Italian-born British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Wikipedia
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Homo sapiens
AWARD RECEIVED
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Keith Medal
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Fellow of the Royal Society
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk Familjebok
EDUCATED AT
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University of Edinburgh
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Bedford School
EMPLOYER
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University of Edinburgh
FAMILY NAME
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Smyth
FATHER
William Henry Smyth
FIELD OF WORK
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astronomy
GIVEN NAME
Charles
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
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Royal Museums Greenwich
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
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English
MEMBER OF
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Royal Society
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Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Royal Society of Edinburgh
OCCUPATION
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anthropologist
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astronomer
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writer
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photographer
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painter
PLACE OF BIRTH
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Naples
PLACE OF DEATH
Ripon
POSITION HELD
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland
RESIDENCE
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Naples
SEX OR GENDER
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male
SIBLING
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Warington Wilkinson Smyth
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Henry Augustus Smyth
SPOUSE
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Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth
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Charles Piazzi Smyth

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