George Biddell Airy

Sir George Biddell Airy, KCB, PRS (; 27 Juli 1801 – 2 Januari 1892) adalah seorang matematikawan dan astronom Inggris, Astronomer Royal dari 1835 sampai 1881.

Biografi 
Airy lahir di Alnwick

Kehidupan pribadi 

Keluarga Airy memiliki sembilan anak, tiga anak paling tua meninggal pada masa kecil. Anak sulung yang bertahan hidup, Wilfrid Airy, merupakan seorang perancang dan teknisi untuk Observatorium Taman Orwell milik "Colonel" George Tomline. Putri Wilfrid' adalah artis Anna Airy.

Putri sulungnya, Hilda (1840–1916), menikah dengan Edward Routh pada 1864. Airy dijadikan kesatria pada 17 Juni 1872.

Airy pensiun pada 1881, tinggal dengan dua putrinya yang telah menikah di Croom's Hill dekat Greenwich. Pada 1891, ia jatuh dan mengalami luka dalam. Ia hanya bertahan selama beberapa hari. Airy dan istrinya dan tiga anak pra-anumertanya dimakamkan di Gereja St. Maria di Playford, Suffolk.

Daftar pustaka 
Karya Airy
 Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich (Full text at )
A complete list of Airy's 518 printed papers is in Airy (1896). Among the most important are:
 Airy, G. B. (1826) Mathematical Tracts on Physical Astronomy;
 (1828) On the Lunar Theory, The Figure of the Earth, Precession and Nutation, and Calculus of Variations, to which, in the second edition of 1828, were added tracts on the Planetary Theory and the Undulatory Theory of Light;
 (1839) Experiments on Iron-built Ships, instituted for the purpose of discovering a correction for the deviation of the Compass produced-by the Iron of the Ships; and
 (1861) On the Algebraic and Numerical Theory of Errors of Observations and the Combination of Observations.

Tentang Airy

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 
 
 
 
 
 Awarding of RAS gold medal, 1833: MNRAS 2 (1833) 159 
 Awarding of RAS gold medal, 1846: MNRAS 7 (1846) 64 
 
 Mathematical Tracts on the Lunar and Planetary Theories 4th edition (London, McMillan, 1858)
 Full texts of some of the papers by Airy are available at Gallica: bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

Obituari 
 E. J. R., Proceedings of the Royal Society, 51 (1892), i–xii
 The Times, 5 January 1892
 East Anglian Daily Times, 11 January 1892
 Suffolk Chronicle, 9 January 1892
 Daily Times, 5 January 1892
 
 Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 108 (1891–92), 391–394
 Astronomical Journal 11 (1892) 96 
 Astronomische Nachrichten 129 (1892) 33/34 
 The Observatory 15 (1892) 73 
 Obituary in: 

Kelahiran 1801
Kematian 1892