William Sadler Franks
William Sadler Franks (26 April 1851 in Newark, Nottinghamshire – 19 June 1935 in East Grinstead[1]) was a British astronomer.
He published a catalogue of the colours of 3890 stars.
In 1910 he was hired by F. J. Hanbury (of the Allan and Hanbury firm) to work as an observer at Hanbury's private Brockhurst Observatory at East Grinstead in Sussex. He continued his studies of the colours of stars there, and also made micrometer measurements of double stars. In 1923 he won the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
One of the other observers who used the Brockhurst Observatory with Franks was a teenage Patrick Moore (fourteen years old at Franks's death).
References
- ↑ Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved 22 August 2012.