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42 1898
Annie Maunder born in County Tyrone
extensively studied sunspots and coronal
masses, having famously photographed
the longest coronal extension at that time,
reaching 10km into space.
X 3 3 + 2x
2
X + 2x
= 2 x 2 (x+2)
2
= x
44 1843
Dublin native, Sir William Rowan Hamilton’s
‘quaternions’, herald the birth of modern algebra and
are also used in space flight navigation equations.
45 1848
43 1889
Dublin-born physicist George Francis Fitzgerald
laid the foundations for Einstein’s special theory
of relativity. The Fitzgerald crater on the far side
of the Moon is named after him.
Also born in Dublin, Margaret Lindsay Huggins
along with her husband William Huggins were the
first to apply the dry gelatine photographic plate
to astronomical spectroscopy, an important tool in
modern observation astronomy.