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leslie comrie wikipedia 113 captures 12 sep 2004 17 jun 2026 nov dec jan 18 2021 2022 2023 success fail about this capture timestamps the wayback machine http web archive org web 20221218092744 https en wikipedia org wiki leslie_comrie leslie comrie from wikipedia the free encyclopedia jump to navigation jump to search new zealand astronomer leslie comrie frs born 1893 08 15 15 august 1893 pukekohe new zealand died 11 december 1950 1950 12 11 aged 57 nationality new zealand alma mater auckland university college known for ephemeris calculation automation awards fellow of the royal society 1 scientific career fields astronomy influences ernest william brown influenced wallace j eckert leslie john comrie frs 1 15 august 1893 11 december 1950 was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation contents 1 life 2 publications 3 obituaries 4 references 5 external links life edit leslie john comrie was born in pukekohe south of auckland new zealand on 15 august 1893 he attended auckland university college part of the university of new zealand from 1912 to 1916 graduating with ba and ma degrees with honours in chemistry 2 during world war i despite severe deafness he saw action in france with the new zealand expeditionary force and lost his left leg in february 1918 to a british shell 3 while convalescing he started using a mechanical calculator and went on to modify commercial calculators for specific projects having joined while in school in new zealand 4 comrie was eventually the first director 1920 1922 of the computing section of the british astronomical association in 1923 he received a phd from st john s college of the university of cambridge he travelled to the united states to teach at swarthmore college and northwestern university in 1924 where he also pioneered the teaching of numerical analysis he returned to england to join the hm nautical almanac office at the royal greenwich observatory where he became deputy superintendent in 1926 5 his article on the construction of tables by interpolation was published in april 1928 and described the use of punched card equipment for interpolating tables of data in contrast to the more inefficient and error prone methods involving mechanical devices like the pinwheel calculators under the brunsviga brand name in the same year he became the first person to use punched card equipment for scientific calculations by using fourier synthesis to compute the principal terms in the motion of the moon between 1935 and 2000 improving upon the predictions of ernest william brown wallace j eckert an american student of brown at columbia university would later use ibm s vast computational resources to refine the predictions even further 6 he was promoted to superintendent of the nautical almanac office in 1930 however his unconventional use of machines for calculation caused tensions with his superiors and he was suspended in august 1936 7 comrie founded in 1937 the world s first private company for scientific computing incorporated as scientific computing service limited 8 9 during world war ii he headed a team of 30 scientists to computerize war work such as the creation of bombing tables for the allies of world war ii he later used this technology to computerize british football pools after the war comrie visited the united states and new zealand in 1948 10 comrie was elected a fellow of the royal society of london in march 1950 1 comrie is also remembered for his work in astronomy as he published both scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from predicting eclipses to the green flash he died on 11 december 1950 at age 57 following a series of strokes a lunar crater 23 3n 112 7w and an asteroid 3521 comrie bear his name as does the computer lab at the university of auckland which was named on the 50th anniversary of his death 2 publications edit comrie l j levin a e 1921 eclipse of rhea by the shadow of titan monthly notices of the royal astronomical society 81 7 486 487 bibcode 1921mnras 81 486c doi 10 1093 mnras 81 7 486 comrie l j 1928 on the construction of by interpolation tables monthly notices of the royal astronomical society 88 6 506 523 bibcode 1928mnras 88 506c doi 10 1093 mnras 88 6 506 1928 march 9 meeting of the royal astronomical society the observatory 81 105 106 1928 bibcode 1928obs 51 105 1932 the application of the hollerith tabulating machine to brown s tables of the moon monthly notices of the royal astronomical society 92 7 694 707 bibcode 1932mnras 92 694c doi 10 1093 mnras 92 7 694 1933 the computation of total solar eclipses monthly notices of the royal astronomical society 93 3 175 181 bibcode 1933mnras 93 175c doi 10 1093 mnras 93 3 175 1933 the total solar eclipse of 1940 october 1 monthly notices of the royal astronomical society 93 3 181 184 bibcode 1933mnras 93 181c doi 10 1093 mnras 93 3 181 1937 the application of the brunsviga twin 13z calculating machine to the hartmann formula for the reduction of prismatic spectrograms the observatory 60 70 73 bibcode 1937obs 60 70c comrie l j burrough s m december 1941 line of planets popular astronomy 49 397 398 bibcode 1941pa 49 397c comrie l j december 1942 errors in mathematical tables nature 150 3816 738 bibcode 1942natur 150 738c doi 10 1038 150738b0 december 1949 the green flash popular astronomy 57 42 43 bibcode 1949pa 57 42c obituaries edit obituary monthly notices of the royal astronomical society 113 3 294 304 1953 bibcode 1953mnras 113r 294 obituary journal of the british astronomical association 61 4 132 1951 bibcode 1951jbaa 61 132 obituary the observatory 71 4 24 1951 bibcode 1951obs 71 24 references edit a b c massey h s w 1952 leslie john comrie 1893 1950 obituary notices of fellows of the royal society 8 21 96 107 doi 10 1098 rsbm 1952 0006 jstor 768801 a b garry tee comrie lecture 2000 department of mathematics at the university of auckland retrieved 4 june 2010 martin campbell kelly mary croarken raymond flood 2003 the history of mathematical tables oxford university press p 137 isbn 978 0 19 850841 0 hockey thomas 2009 the biographical encyclopedia of astronomers springer publishing isbn 978 0 387 31022 0 retrieved 22 august 2012 obituary leslie john comrie the observatory vol 71 1951 pp 24 26 bibcode 1951obs 71 24 retrieved 4 june 2010 frank da cruz professor wallace j eckert a chronology of computing at columbia university web site columbia university retrieved 5 june 2010 includes photographs references and bibliography papers of leslie john comrie royal greenwich observatory archives retrieved 4 june 2010 nahc scs scientific computing service ltd pdf uk national archive for the history of computing university of manchester centre for the history of science technology and medicine p 106 archived from the original pdf on 25 july 2011 retrieved 4 june 2010 croarken mary 1999 case 5 656 l j comrie and the origins of the scientific computing service ltd ieee annals of the history of computing 21 4 70 71 doi 10 1109 mahc 1999 801536 ivan leslie thomsen 1966 a h mclintock ed comrie leslie john f r s 1893 1950 an encyclopaedia of new zealand retrieved 4 june 2010 external links edit frank da cruz l j comrie a chronology of computing at columbia university columbia university retrieved 5 june 2010 includes photographs references bibliography and publication list recording of an interview with comrie titled mathematics in war on radio station 1ya on 5 april 1948 mp3 format extract from peter isaac s computing in new zealand p64 at the wayback machine archived 10 march 2005 authority control general isni 1 viaf 1 worldcat national libraries norway catalonia germany israel united states australia croatia netherlands biographical dictionaries germany scientific databases cinii japan zbmath other faceted application of subject terminology rero switzerland 1 social networks and archival context sudoc france 1 trove australia 1 retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title leslie_comrie oldid 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