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A. M. W. Downing
British astronomer
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collaboration with Newcomb
- In Simon Newcomb: Accomplishments
…was his inauguration, jointly with A.M.W. Downing, then superintendent of the British Nautical Almanac Office, of a worldwide unified system of astronomical constants, which was later to lead to the outstandingly successful scheme of international collaboration among the principal almanac makers of the world that survived two World Wars with…
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