William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse KP FRS (17 June 1800 – 31 October 1867), was an English engineer and astronomer. He built several giant telescopes....
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as Earl of Rosse in 1807) Laurence Harman Parsons, 1st Earl of Rosse (1749–1807) Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse (1758–1841) William Parsons, 3rd Earl...
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Laurence Parsons. He was born at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, King's County, Ireland, the son and heir of the astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse who...
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construction of the 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker Telescope in California in 1917. The Rosse six-foot telescope was built by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse on his...
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Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, KBE (28 September 1906 – 5 July 1979) was an Anglo-Irish peer. Parsons was the son of William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of...
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Parsons was born into an Anglo-Irish family on 13 June 1854 in London as the youngest son of the famous astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse...
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Irish politician William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867), Lord Rosse, Irish astronomer William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse (1873–1918), Irish...
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Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse (21 May 1758 – 24 February 1841), known as Sir Lawrence Parsons, Bt, from 1791 to 1807, was an Irish peer. Parsons was...
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Crab Nebula (redirect from Creation of the Crab Nebula)
constellation of Taurus. The common name comes from a drawing that somewhat resembled a crab with arms produced by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, in 1842...
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Mary Ward (scientist) (category Road incident deaths in the Republic of Ireland)
astronomer, sharing this interest with her cousin William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. Parsons built the Leviathan of Parsonstown, a reflecting telescope with a...
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