James Dunlop
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1793-10-31
- Died
- 1848
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Observations on the account of a plan for the better supplying the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow with coal by Henry Steuart
- Contribution to antiseptic surgery
- A letter on vaccination and the Vaccination (Scotland) Act
- Approximate places of double stars in the southern hemisphere observed at Paramatta in New South Wales
- Death and after
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- Total plays
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 75,924x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 66,940x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,727x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,163x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1793-10-31 ) 31 October 1793, Dalry, Ayrshire , Scotland
- Died
- 22 September 1848 (1848-09-22) (aged 54), New South Wales , Australia
- Resting place
- St. Paul's Anglican Church Kincumber , New South Wales
- Known for
- made 40,000 observations and catalogued some 7385 stars, of which included 166 double stars
- Spouse
- Jean Service, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1816 )
- Children
- No children
- Awards
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1828)
- Fields
- Astronomy
- Institutions
- Paramatta Observatory
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Key dates
- Born
- 31 October 1793
- Died
- 22 September 1848
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Dunlop
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Scotland
- Place of death
- New South Wales
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Employer
- New South Wales
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
James Dunlop FRSE (31 October 1793 – 22 September 1848) was a British astronomer, noted for his work in Australia. He was employed by Sir Thomas Brisbane to work as astronomer's assistant at his private observatory, once located at Paramatta (now named Parramatta), New South Wales, about 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of Sydney during the 1820s and 1830s. Dunlop was mostly a visual observer, doing stellar astrometry work for Brisbane, and after its completion, then independently discovered and catalogued many new telescopic southern double stars and deep-sky objects. He later became the Superintendent of Paramatta Observatory when it was finally sold to the New South Wales Government.
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1793 births1848 deaths19th-century Australian astronomersBritish scientific instrument makersFellows of the Royal Astronomical SocietyFellows of the Royal Society of EdinburghPeople from Dalry, North AyrshireRecipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical SocietyRecipients of the Lalande PrizeScottish astronomersScottish emigrants to colonial Australia