Dionysius Lardner
1793–1859
Science writer and public lecturer. BA, Trinity College, Dublin, 1817; LLD, 1827; LLD, Cambridge, 1833. Professor of natural philosophy and astronomy, London University, 1827–31. Edited the Cabinet Cyclopædia, 1829–49. Lectured in the United States and Cuba, 1840–5. Lived in Paris, 1845–59. FRS 1828.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
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Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
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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