Challis Sentence Examples

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  • Two years later he succeeded Challis as director of the Observatory, where he resided until his death.

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  • Comrade Challis was happy with simply calling people liars whenever he felt like it.

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  • A good account of the subject from a mathematical point of view will be found in James Challis's " Report on the Theory of Capillary Attraction," Brit.

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  • By September 1845 he obtained his first solution, and handed to Professor Challis, the director of the Cambridge Observatory, a paper giving the elements of what he described as "the new planet."

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  • The latter was struck by the coincidence, and mentioned it to the Board of Visitors of the Observatory, James Challis and Sir John Herschel being present.

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  • Meanwhile Airy had in July suggested to Challis that the planet should be sought for with the Cambridge equatorial.

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  • On the announcement of the fact, Herschel and Challis made known that Adams had already calculated the planet's elements and position.

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