List of Famous people with last name Pogson

Isis Pogson

First Name Isis

Born on September 28, 1852

Died on May 14, 1945 (aged 92)

Born in United Kingdom, England

Isis Pogson,, was a British astronomer and meteorologist, who was one of the first women to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Norman Robert Pogson

First Name Norman

Last Name Pogson

Born on March 23, 1829

Died on June 23, 1891 (aged 62)

Born in United Kingdom, England

Norman Robert Pogson, CIE was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio.

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