Joseph Norman Lockyer ( 1836 - 1920 )

Birth: Rugby, Warwickshire, England (17 May 1836) Death: Salcombe Regis, Devon (16 August 1920) Research Field: Astrophysics Career: Joined the Civil Service; Clerk in the War Office; Editor of Army 'Regulations' (1865); pioneered spectroscopy; transferred to the Science and Art Department; Director of the Solar Physics Observatory when the Royal College of Science was founded (1890-1913); founding editor of the journal Nature (1869-1919) Honours: CB 1894; KCB 1897 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 3/06/1869 Medals/Prizes: Rumford Medal 1874 Lectures: Bakerian 1874 and 1888 Council: VP 1892-1893.