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George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) was the fifth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1868, Darwin studied law for six years, before returning to Cambridge, and publishing work in geophysics. In 1879, Darwin was elected fellow of the Royal Society, and became its president in 1900. In 1883, he was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Physics at Cambridge, succeeding James Challis. In 1907, he was elected Corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Science.
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Walter, S.A., Nabonnand, P., Krömer, R., Schiavon, M. (2016). George Howard Darwin. In: Walter, S., Nabonnand, P., Krömer, R., Schiavon, M. (eds) La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré, les astronomes, et les géodésiens. Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8293-3_15
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