Lockyer

[ lok-yer ]

/ ˈlɒk yər /

Sir Joseph Norman,1836–1920, English astronomer and author.

Example sentences from the Web for lockyer

Lockyer put on his nose glasses with the gesture of grace and intellect that was famous.

The Grain Of Dust |David Graham Phillips
This was nearly a year in advance of Lockyer's first paper suggesting the same general view.

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, |Various
Lockyer had been led to his conclusion along several converging lines of research.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century |Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Among the wounded were Captain Lockyer, in command, and other officers.

The Battle of New Orleans |Zachary F. Smith

Even such men as Tyndall and Lockyer get less than that by their official positions.

Travels in South Kensington |Moncure Daniel Conway

Lockyer

/ (ˈlɒkjə) /

Sir Joseph Norman. 1836–1920, English astronomer: a pioneer in solar spectroscopy, he was the first to observe helium in the sun's atmosphere (1868)