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William
Herschel
William Herschel
(1738 - 1822) was an English astronomer who is best
known for his discoveries of astronomical objects.
Herschel's most notable contribution to astronomy was his
discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781. He
subsequently discovered Saturn moons Enceladus and Mimas and
Uranus moons Oberaon and Titania.
Herschel is also known for
several important discoveries about the properties and
motions of objects of the solar system. His
experimentation with prisms led to the discovery of infrared
radiation in 1800.
