Born Alnwick, Northumberland, England, 27 July 1801
Died Greenwich, England, 2 January 1892
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Satterthwaite, G.E. (2007). Airy, George Biddell. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_24
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