Francis Graham-Smith

Francis Graham-Smith

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Sir Francis Graham Smith (born April 25, 1923) is a British astronomer. He was Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1987.

He was educated at Rossall School, Lancashire, England. In the late 1940s he worked at the University of Cambridge on the Long Michelson Interferometer.

Sir Francis Graham-Smith is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association and is a patron of Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society.

External links

* [http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/SmithGraham.html Scienceworld biography]


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