John Carroll (astronomer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Carroll (astronomer)

British astronomer and physicist

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1899

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-May-1974

Profession: astronomer, physicist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sir John Anthony Carroll (8 January 1899 – 2 May 1974) was a British astronomer and physicist.
In the 1920s he worked at the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge, UK with F.J.M.
Stratton and Richard van der Riet Woolley.
He made major technological advances, inventing a high resolution spectrometer, and (with C G Fraser) a coronal camera.