234 Barbara [SEP] discoverer or inventor
234 Barbara
Barbara (minor planet designation: 234 Barbara) is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on August 12, 1883, in Clinton, New York. It is classified as a stony S-type asteroid based upon its spectrum. The mean diameter is estimated as 45.6 km.
Polarimetric study of this asteroid reveals anomalous properties that suggests the regolith consists of a mixture of low and high albedo material. This may have been caused by fragmentation of an asteroid
Royal College of Physicians), Jeremy Farrar (current Director of the Wellcome Trust), Clare Gerada (previous President of the Royal College of General Practitioners), Marc Tessier-Lavigne (current president of Stanford University), Joseph Lister (pioneer of antiseptic surgery), Barbara Low (founder member of the British Psychoanalytical Society) and Clare Marx (current President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England).
- Engineering scientists including Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone), Francis Crick (co-discoverer