Richard Christopher Carrington

Richard Christopher Carrington was an English astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun.

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Who was born first?

• Richard Christopher Carrington and Stanislao Cannizzaro were born the same year
• Richard Christopher Carrington and Henry Clifton Sorby were born the same year
• Richard Christopher Carrington and Bernhard Riemann were born the same year
• Richard Christopher Carrington and Giovanni Battista Donati were born the same year
• Richard Christopher Carrington and Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen were born the same year

Timeline

1. Bernhard RiemannSeptember 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866
2. Giovanni Battista DonatiDecember 16, 1826 – September 1873
3. Hans Peter Jørgen Julius ThomsenFebruary 16, 1826 – February 13, 1909
4. Henry Clifton SorbyMay 10, 1826 – March 9, 1908
5. Richard Christopher Carrington (this page)May 26, 1826 – November 27, 1875
6. Stanislao CannizzaroJuly 13, 1826 – May 10, 1910

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