Английская Википедия:Adolph Friedrich Lindemann
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Adolph Friedrich Lindemann (13 May 1846 – 25 August 1931) was a British engineer, businessman, and amateur astronomer of German origin.
Life
Lindemann was born in the Palatinate to a Roman Catholic family established in Alsace-Lorraine under the Comte de Lindemann, who had married into the Cyprien-Fabre shipping family. Lindemann married Olga Noble (1851 – c. 1927), herself heiress to a wealthy New London, Connecticut, engineering family of British origin, and the widow of a banker named Davidson by whom she had produced three children.[1][2] Olga was reputedly "vivacious and beautiful".[1]
Lindemann had raised capital in the City of London to construct the waterworks in Speyer and Pirmasens; he was also involved in the Transatlantic telegraph cable project. He moved to England in the 1860s and became naturalised a British subject.[1] The couple were wealthy, having an annual income of around £20,000 by 1914 (£1.5 million at 2003 prices[3]). Olga inherited a mansion near Sidmouth,[2] Devon, so her husband took the opportunity to establish a laboratory and astronomical observatory there. On Olga's death, Lindemann donated the observatory to the University of Exeter.[1] Lindemann was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 February 1873.[4] He was also elected a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society on 19 March 1884.[5]
Family
The couple had a daughter and three sons, the second of whom, Frederick, was to become a famed physicist, and World War II adviser to Sir Winston Churchill. The youngest brother, Septimus, became something of a playboy on the French Riviera but became a notable agent for the intelligence services in World War II.[1] Adolph's only daughter (he had two stepdaughters by his wife's previous marriage), Linda, became a short story writer and playwright, writing under a pseudonym to avoid family disapproval. One of her plays, The Man in the Case, was censored. Her granddaughter is novelist Salley Vickers, and her great-grandson Rupert Kingfisher, the children's writer of Madame Pamplemousse.Шаблон:Citation needed Olga was a Protestant and insisted on the children being raised in the Anglican Church.[1]
Legacy
- The minor planet 828 Lindemannia is named for him.[1]
See also
References
Further reading
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 Crowther (1965), pp. 343–344.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Blake (2004)
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