Brian G. W. Manning British Astronomer
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| First Name |
Brian
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| Middle Name |
G. W.
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| Last Name |
Manning
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1925
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| Birthplace |
14 May 1926 Handsworth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
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| Died |
10th November, 2011
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| Place of Death |
Nightingales Residential home, Worcestershire
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation Text |
Astronomer
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| Occupation |
Astronomer
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Brian George William Manning (14 May 1926 – 10 November 2011) was an English astronomer who discovered 19 minor planets. He was born in 1926 in Birmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engineering draughtsman but later became a metrologist at the University of Birmingham. In the late 1950s, he constructed an interference-controlled ruling machine in a home workshop, which was able to rule high-quality 3 by 2 inch gratings. In 1990, he received the H. E. Dall prize of the BAA.
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