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Mayall
Mayall may refer to: People with the surname Mayall: *James Mayall (1856–1916), British cricketer *John Mayall (1933–2024), British blues singer *John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813–1901), British photographer *Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer *Nicholas U. Mayall (1906–1993), American observational astronomer *Rik Mayall (1958–2014), British comedian and actor *Samuel Mayall (1816–1892), Thirty-third Congress Representative from Maine Astronomical objects and related *Mayall II, Mayall III, Mayall IV, Mayall V, and Mayall VI globular clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy *Mayall's Object, or Arp 148, a peculiar galaxy, or pair of colliding galaxies *2131 Mayall, a minor planet *Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope, telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rik Mayall
Richard Michael Mayall (; 7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with Adrian Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s. Mayall starred in numerous successful comedy series throughout his career, including '' The Young Ones'' (1982–1984), '' The Comic Strip Presents...'' (1983–2012), '' Filthy Rich & Catflap'' (1987), '' The New Statesman'' (1987–1994), '' Bottom'' (1991–1995), and '' Believe Nothing'' (2002). He also starred in the comedy films '' Drop Dead Fred'' (1991) and '' Guest House Paradiso'' (1999). Mayall won a Primetime Emmy Award for his voiceover performance as Mr. Toad in TVC London's 1996 animated movie '' The Willows in Winter'' (a sequel to TVC's 1995 production of ''The Wind in the Willows'', in which Mayall also played Toad). His comedic style, defined by the over-the-top, grotesque and deeply unsympathethic chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mayall
John Brumwell Mayall (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024) was an English blues and Rock music, rock musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians of all-time. A singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and keyboardist, he had a career that spanned nearly seven decades, remaining an active musician until his death aged 90. Mayall has often been referred to as the "godfather of the British blues", and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the musical influence category in 2024. Early life and education Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, on 29 November 1933, John Brumwell Mayall grew up in Cheadle Hulme. He was the son of Murray Mayall, a guitarist who played in local pubs. From an early age he was drawn to the sounds of American blues players such as Lead Belly, Albert Ammons, Pinetop Smith, and Eddie Lang, and taught himself t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jabez Edwin Mayall
John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall (17 September 1813 – 6 March 1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. He is most well known for his 1875 portrait of Karl Marx. Born into a Baptist family on 17 September 1813, at Chamber Hall, near Oldham in the county of Lancashire, his birth name was registered as Jabez Meal. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Meal. North America Mayall moved to Philadelphia in late 1841 or early 1842, and first practiced as a photographer at 140 Chestnut Street until 1846. Fine art photography Gernsheim describes Mayall as "the earliest exponent of fine art photography," in advance of Oscar Rejlander and Julia-Margaret Cameron, on the basis of his production in Philadelphia of ten daguerreotype in 1845 to illustrate ''The Lord's Prayer'' and his later, larger (24" x 15"; 61cm x 38 cm) "daguerreotype pictures to illustrate poetry and sentiment." These were shown in 1851 at the Great Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayall III
Mayall may refer to: People with the surname Mayall: * James Mayall (1856–1916), British cricketer *John Mayall (1933–2024), British blues singer *John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813–1901), British photographer * Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer * Nicholas U. Mayall (1906–1993), American observational astronomer *Rik Mayall (1958–2014), British comedian and actor *Samuel Mayall (1816–1892), Thirty-third Congress Representative from Maine Astronomical objects and related *Mayall II Mayall II, also known as NGC-224-G1, SKHB 1, GSC 2788:2139, HBK 0-1, M31GC J003247+393440 or Andromeda's Cluster, is a globular cluster orbiting M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. It is located from the Andromeda Galaxy's galactic core, and is the brig ..., Mayall III, Mayall IV, Mayall V, and Mayall VI globular clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy * Mayall's Object, or Arp 148, a peculiar galaxy, or pair of colliding galaxies * 2131 Mayall, a minor planet * Nicholas U. Mayall Teles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayall II
Mayall II, also known as NGC-224-G1, SKHB 1, GSC 2788:2139, HBK 0-1, M31GC J003247+393440 or Andromeda's Cluster, is a globular cluster orbiting M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. It is located from the Andromeda Galaxy's galactic core, and is the brightest (by absolute magnitude) globular cluster in the Local Group, with an absolute visual magnitude of −10.94 and the luminosity of 2 million Suns. It has an apparent magnitude of 13.81 in V band. Mayall II is considered to have twice the mass of Omega Centauri, and may contain a central, intermediate-mass (~ 2 M⊙) black hole. It was first identified as a possible globular cluster by American astronomers Nicholas Mayall and Olin J. Eggen in 1953 using a Palomar Schmidt plate exposed in 1948. Because of the widespread distribution of metallicity, indicating multiple star generations and a large stellar creation period, many contend that it is not a true globular cluster, but is actually the galactic core that remains of a dwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2131 Mayall
2131 Mayall (1975 RA) is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on September 3, 1975, by Arnold Klemola at the Lick Observatory and named in honor of Nicholas U. Mayall (1906–1993), director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory during 1960–1971, who also worked at Lick for many years. It is about 8 km (~5 miles) in diameter. Photometric measurements of the asteroid made in 2005 at the Palmer Divide Observatory showed a light curve In astronomy, a light curve is a graph (discrete mathematics), graph of the Radiance, light intensity of a celestial object or region as a function of time, typically with the magnitude (astronomy), magnitude of light received on the ''y''-axis ... with a period of 2.572 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.08 ± 0.02 in magnitude. This led to a follow-up investigation in 2006, when another light curve was recorded. These observations did not indicate a binary asteroid type, but did add to the data set available for this ast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mayall
Margaret Walton Mayall (January 27, 1902 – December 6, 1995) was an American astronomer. She was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1949 to 1973. Early life and education Mayall (born Margaret Lyle Walton) was born in Iron Hill, Maryland, on 27 January 1902. She attended the University of Delaware, where her interest in astronomy grew after taking math and chemistry courses. She then moved to Swarthmore College, where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics in 1924. She earned an MA in Astronomy from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1928 and worked as a research assistant and astronomer at Harvard College Observatory from 1924 to 1954, initially working with Annie Jump Cannon on classifying star spectra and estimating star brightness. During this time, she would spend summers working with Margaret Hardwood of the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, MA, where she became interested in researching variable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayall's Object
Mayall's Object (also classified under the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 148) is the result of two colliding galaxies located 500 million light years away within the constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered by American astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall of the Lick Observatory on 13 March 1940, using the Crossley reflector. When first discovered, Mayall's Object was described as a peculiar nebula, shaped like a question mark. Originally theorized to represent a galaxy reacting with the intergalactic medium, it is now thought to represent the collision of two galaxies, resulting in a new object consisting of a ring-shaped galaxy with a tail emerging from it. It is thought that the collision between the two galaxies created a shockwave that initially drew matter into the center which then formed the ring. Arp 148 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of a survey of what are thought to be colliding galaxies. The image was taken with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
