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George Forbes is indexed among the 9,360 entries in Vinony's Fellows of the Royal Society collection.
Vinony's link graph records 28 inbound references to George Forbes, and connects out to University of St Andrews, Royal Astronomical Society and University of Strathclyde.
It sits within the topics 1849 births, 1936 deaths and 19th-century British astronomers.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 43
Top works
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Family name
- Forbes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Place of death
- London
- Father
- James David Forbes
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of St Andrews
- Employer
- University of Strathclyde
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Legion of Honour
- Image
- George Forbes.png
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- date of birth
- 1849-01-01
- date of death
- 1936-01-01
- member of
- Royal Society
- Commons category
- George Forbes (scientist)
- Commons Creator page
- George Forbes (scientist)
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Categories
1849 births1936 deaths19th-century British astronomers19th-century Scottish inventorsAlumni of St Catharine's College, CambridgeAlumni of the University of St AndrewsBritish electrical engineersBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish recipients of the Legion of HonourMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyPeople educated at Edinburgh AcademyScientists from EdinburghScottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees