Halley
Encyclopedia
People
- Includes a list of people with the surname Halley
- Antoine HalleyAntoine HalleyAntoine Halley was a French professor and poet.Halley was born at Bazenville near Bayeux. A professor of belles-lettres and Principal of the Collège du Bois, at the University of Caen, he succeeded Antoine Gosselin and distinguished himself from the age of twenty-two, by his eloquence and the...
(1593-1675), French poet - Edmond HalleyEdmond HalleyEdmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.-Biography and career:Halley...
(1656 – 1742), English Astronomer Royal - Robert HalleyRobert HalleyRobert Halley was an English Congregationalist minister and abolitionist. He was noted for his association with the politics of Repeal of the Corn Laws, and became Classical Tutor at Highbury College and Principal of New College, St John's Wood, London.-Early life :Robert Halley was born in...
(1796-1876), English Congregationalist minister and abolitionist - Paul-Louis Halley (1934-2003), French businessman
- Peter HalleyPeter Halley-Early Life and Career:Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an artist is usually associated with minimalism, neo-geo, and neo-conceptualism...
(1953-), American painter
- Antoine Halley
Science
- Halley's Comet, whose period was first calculated by Edmond Halley
- Halley ArmadaHalley ArmadaThe Halley Armada is the generally accepted and popularly used name of five space probes sent to examine Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn through the inner solar system, connected with apparition "1P/1982 U1"...
, a group of space probes sent to examine Comet Halley in 1986 - Halley (lunar crater)Halley (lunar crater)Halley is a lunar impact crater that is intruding into the southern wall of the walled plain Hipparchus. To the southwest of Halley is the large crater Albategnius, and due east lies the slightly smaller Hind....
, a lunar crater named after Edmond Halley - Halley Research StationHalley Research StationHalley Research Station, run by the British Antarctic Survey, is located on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. It is a British research facility dedicated to the study of the Earth's atmosphere...
, British research facility on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica
See also
- Haley (disambiguation) (variant form)
- Hailey (disambiguation) (variant form)
- HayleyHayleyHayley is a given name. It was adopted from the English surname, which is based on a place name derived from Old English heg "hay" and ley "clearing or meadow", but many sources accept that it was also separately derived from the Old Norse word haela meaning "hero". While it can be used for males,...
(variant form) - Hali (disambiguation) (variant form)