User contributions for Samitton
A user with 126 edits. Account created on 4 April 2008.
17 February 2023
- 15:4115:41, 17 February 2023 diff hist −3 m Simon Mitton Correction
- 15:3715:37, 17 February 2023 diff hist −638 m Simon Mitton Removal of out-of-date material
10 January 2023
- 14:0714:07, 10 January 2023 diff hist −1 m Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes →Early History: spelling correction indignant -- indigent
5 November 2022
- 22:5122:51, 5 November 2022 diff hist +66 m The Becket School Name added
28 September 2021
- 17:2517:25, 28 September 2021 diff hist +17 m Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Uncle name in full (Nobel Laureate)
- 17:2217:22, 28 September 2021 diff hist +7 m Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Replacement of informal name for formal name
4 October 2020
- 15:4715:47, 4 October 2020 diff hist 0 m Charles Critchfield Age at death corrected.
25 May 2020
- 21:0521:05, 25 May 2020 diff hist +286 Ralph Alpher Full citation given to the history of the etymology of the term Big Bang
3 January 2020
- 18:3418:34, 3 January 2020 diff hist +2 Harold Jeffreys →Opposition to continental drift and plate tectonics
- 18:3318:33, 3 January 2020 diff hist +71 m Harold Jeffreys →Opposition to continental drift and plate tectonics
- 18:3118:31, 3 January 2020 diff hist 0 m Harold Jeffreys Clot error removed -- 1940 not 1840 FGS!
13 June 2019
- 15:2715:27, 13 June 2019 diff hist +1 m Lost City Hydrothermal Field One miss spelling corrected
28 May 2019
- 14:5514:55, 28 May 2019 diff hist 0 m Three-domain system Surname corrected FROM "Whose" TO Woese (must have been corrupted by automatic text editor)
9 May 2019
- 15:0115:01, 9 May 2019 diff hist −20 m Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh name Guy added
19 February 2019
- 12:3112:31, 19 February 2019 diff hist 0 m Henry Carvill Lewis Date correct: 1883 not 1833
18 January 2019
- 11:0111:01, 18 January 2019 diff hist 0 Georges Lemaître →Early life
- 11:0011:00, 18 January 2019 diff hist −3 m Georges Lemaître Lemaître was not a graduate student and he never matriculated at the University of Cambridge. In fact, he already had a doctorate. Today he would be styled a "postdoc", but it would be an anachronism to use that in a historical article.
- 10:5510:55, 18 January 2019 diff hist +11 m Georges Lemaître Correction: deleted 'pejorative' replaced by 'picturesque'
2 January 2019
- 16:5216:52, 2 January 2019 diff hist −1 m Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen No edit summary
- 16:2916:29, 2 January 2019 diff hist +565 Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen Added material on carbon cycle. One date corrected. Acute accents added to initial E's
- 16:1116:11, 2 January 2019 diff hist +64 m Baume-les-Dames Edelmen added
19 November 2018
- 20:5720:57, 19 November 2018 diff hist +3 m Plate tectonics Three corrections of Blackett (correct) instead of Blacket (incorrect)
17 November 2018
- 17:2817:28, 17 November 2018 diff hist +16 m Seyfert galaxy NGC catalog number added
30 August 2018
- 20:4220:42, 30 August 2018 diff hist +14 m Collège des Quatre-Nations Legendre dates added
20 June 2018
- 09:3109:31, 20 June 2018 diff hist +19 m St Edmund's College, Cambridge →People associated with St Edmund's
16 June 2018
- 17:3617:36, 16 June 2018 diff hist 0 m Harry Hammond Hess Correction of typo: 1960 not 1950
12 March 2018
- 12:1012:10, 12 March 2018 diff hist +372 m Louis Jacques Thénard Addition of his most important discovery, the high carbon content of the meteorite
1 February 2018
- 18:2118:21, 1 February 2018 diff hist +20 m Harper (publisher) Arthur Holmes added for Age of the Earth 1913 the first book to give an absolute determination of the age of Earth. Holmes was one of the most distinguished earth scientists in the first half of the 20th century
7 November 2017
- 19:3519:35, 7 November 2017 diff hist −1 m History of geology Sedgewick corrected to Sedgwick
14 October 2017
- 14:0414:04, 14 October 2017 diff hist +1 m Leipzig University No edit summary
- 14:0314:03, 14 October 2017 diff hist +22 m Leipzig University Add Georgius Agricola, awarded BA in 1518
12 October 2017
22 September 2017
- 13:3813:38, 22 September 2017 diff hist +1 Dundry →Notable persons
- 13:3713:37, 22 September 2017 diff hist +68 m Dundry →Notable persons
9 June 2017
- 11:0811:08, 9 June 2017 diff hist −22 m St Edmund's College, Cambridge →People associated with St Edmund's
- 11:0411:04, 9 June 2017 diff hist −52 St Edmund's College, Cambridge No edit summary
- 10:5710:57, 9 June 2017 diff hist +6 m St Edmund's College, Cambridge →History and buildings
27 May 2017
- 14:0114:01, 27 May 2017 diff hist −451 Menetou-Salon →External links: none of these links, websites exist any longer
3 May 2017
- 09:4109:41, 3 May 2017 diff hist +10 W. Jason Morgan Correct name for doctoral advisor
28 November 2016
- 10:4010:40, 28 November 2016 diff hist +24 m Belgian American Educational Foundation →Notable alumni: added Georges Lemaître
18 November 2016
- 15:2715:27, 18 November 2016 diff hist +14 m Charleroi →Born in Charleroi
17 October 2016
- 11:2511:25, 17 October 2016 diff hist +51 Albert Einstein Added his Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1926
28 May 2016
- 19:2419:24, 28 May 2016 diff hist +419 m Kathleen Lonsdale citations added
25 December 2015
- 18:1118:11, 25 December 2015 diff hist −1 Rose George No edit summary
- 18:0918:09, 25 December 2015 diff hist +238 m Rose George Clarify that the US and UK Titles are different.
15 November 2015
- 08:5608:56, 15 November 2015 diff hist +8 m George Biddell Airy Clarify which Astronomer Royal
8 November 2015
- 18:4418:44, 8 November 2015 diff hist +94 m Alfred P. Sloan citation provided
12 October 2015
- 21:0221:02, 12 October 2015 diff hist +3 Fred Hoyle No edit summary
- 14:5114:51, 12 October 2015 diff hist −1,295 m Simon Mitton Bringing the entry up to date
- 14:4114:41, 12 October 2015 diff hist +153 Simon Mitton No edit summary
