At the International Meridian Conference, it was decided that the cross-hairs on this man's transitcircle would be used to designate 0 degrees longitude and thus the start of the Universal Day.
At the International Meridian Conference, it was decided that the cross-hairs on this man's transitcircle would be used to designate 0 degrees longitude and thus the start of the Universal Day. Thisman allegedly refused to communicate with John Couch Adams after a minor question this manasked Adams was ignored because it was thought to be rhetorical. That led to Berlin astronomersusing Le Verrier's solution to locate (*) Neptune before England. One of this man's namesake functionsis a Bessel function of order 1/3 and is equal to the integral from 0 to infinity of cos of pi over 2 times thequantity omega cubed minus m omega. That function is used to calculate the light intensity in theneighborhood of a caustic. For 10 points, name this English astronomer and physicist who names a discproduced when a point source of light passes through a small circular aperture and is diffracted.
At the International Meridian Conference, it was decided that the cross-hairs on this man's transitcircle would be used to designate 0 degrees longitude and thus the start of the Universal Day.
Sir George Biddell Airy