Gameday Thread, #125: 8/18 vs. Giants

By Jim McLennan@AZSnakepit Aug 18, 2019, 4:00pm EDT

Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) English astronomer and spectroscopist born at Rugby, Warwickshire. In 1868 he detected and named the gaseous element Helium in the Sun’s chromosphere. In 1869 he established the science journal Nature which he edited un..

August 18 - 1868: India - French astronomer, Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discovered the gas, helium, while observing a solar eclipse at Guntar ~ noticed bright lines in the spectrum of the chromosphere, showing that the chromosphere is gaseous. #history
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