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Categories: German military personnel of the Seven Years' War, 18th-century German composers, British scientific instrument makers, 19th-century German male musicians, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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Herschel  William Herschel  Sir William Herschel  Sir Frederick William Herschel  Discoverer of Enceladus
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English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822) WordNet 3.0
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English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Frederick William Herschel was a German-British astronomer and composer. Wikipedia
IS A
astronomer
homo
ACADEMIC DEGREE
Doctor of Laws
honorary degree
ARCHIVES AT
Harry Ransom Center
AWARD RECEIVED
Royal Guelphic Order
Copley Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society
CHILD
Herschel
CONFLICT
Seven Years' War
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Germany
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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DIFFERENT FROM
Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet
EDUCATED AT
Oxford University
ETHNIC GROUP
German
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
GIVEN NAME
William
INSTRUMENT
violin
oboe
organ
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Accademia nazionale delle scienze
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
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OCCUPATION
astronomer
composer
physicist
oboist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Hannover
PLACE OF BURIAL
Westminster Abbey
PLACE OF DEATH
Slough
RELIGION
Lutheranism
RESIDENCE
England
Observatory House
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Caroline Herschel
STUDENT
Herschel
STUDENT OF
Nevil Maskelyne
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Herschel, William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel
Wikipedia
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William Herschel
Wikidata
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William Herschel
Wikipedia Redirections
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Discoverer of Enceladus, Discoverer of Mimas, Discoverer of Oberon, Discoverer of Titania, Discoverer of Uranus, Frederick Herschel, Frederick William Herschel, Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, Herschel, William, Herschel Catalogue of Double Stars, Herschelian, Sir Frederick William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, Wilhelm Friedrich Herschel, Wilhelm Herschel, William H. Herschel, William Hershel
Wikidata Alias
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Frederick William Herschel, Sir William Herschel

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