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Simon Newcomb Astronomer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Mar 12, 1835
  • Died: Jul 11, 1909

Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.

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