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Name: James Bradley
Birth Date: March, 1693
Death Date: July 13, 1762
Place of Birth: Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England
Place of Death: Chalford, Gloucestershire, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: astronomer

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Biography of James Bradley
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James Bradley was born in March 1693, in Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England. He was educated at Oxford and earned a master's degree in 1717. He had great aptitude in mathematics and was befriended by Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley. Since he felt he...
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The English astronomer James Bradley (1693-1762), one of the most determined and meticulous astronomers, discovered the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis. James Bradley, who was the nephew of the astronomer James Pound, was born...


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James Bradley Summary
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1693-1762 English astronomer renowned for discovering stellar aberration—apparent displacement of a star's position due to the combined velocity of Earth and starlight. Bradley exploited this effect to estimate the speed of light, thus...
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James Bradley (March 1693 – July 13, 1762) was an English astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1742. He is best known for discovering the aberration of light while attempting to detect stellar...


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Chain Drug Review
RxHub appoints Bradley CEO.(James Bradley)(Brief Article)
07/30/2001: 431 words, approx. 1 pages
NEW YORK -- Pharmacy and technology veteran James Bradley has been named chief executive officer of RxHub LLC, a new venture designed to let pharmacies, physicians, health plans and pharmacy benefits management companies (PBMs) exchange information and process electronic scripts. Bradley previously...
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The Washington Post
James Bradley Dies; Aide for House Panel
12/31/1995: 391 words, approx. 1 pages
James G. Bradley, 44, a former forest ranger who worked as a legislative aide for the House Natural Resource Committee's subcommittee on national parks, forests and public lands from the late 1980s until 1994, died Dec. 25 at the Washington Hospice. He had AIDS....
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Iwo Jima flag raiser Lindberg dies at 86
6/25/2007: 727 words, approx. 2 pages
Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.Lindberg died Sunday at Fairview Southdale hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, said John Pose, director of the Morris...
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The New York Observer
Curiously Timely Flags Is Ego-Lite, Except for Eastwood
10/22/2006: 1,762 words, approx. 6 pages
Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, from the screenplay by William Broyles Jr. with Paul Haggis, seems to have captured the spirit of our time with its mixture of cynicism and idealism, irony and conviction, satiric skepticism and red-blooded patriotism. In the end, it leaves...
 


 

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