George Biddell Airy (∗July 27, 1801, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; †January 2, 1892, in Greenwich, England) was an English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
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Altenbach, H. (2020). Airy, George Biddell. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55771-6_304
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