Edward Sabine
1788–1883
Physicist and army officer. Entered the army in 1803; general, 1870. Astronomer to expeditions in search of a north-west passage, 1818 and 1819–20. Appointed one of three scientific advisers to the Admiralty, 1828. General secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1839–52 and 1853–9. Foreign secretary of the Royal Society of London, 1845; treasurer, 1850; president, 1861–71. Knighted, 1869. FRS 1818.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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