Richard John Pankhurst (1940–2013) was a notable British computer scientist, botanist, and academic. He worked at CERN and contributed significantly to computer-aided design at Cambridge University. Pankhurst served as curator at the Natural History Museum, specializing in the British herbarium, and later became a Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He authored over fifty peer-reviewed papers and was involved in multiple botanical committees. His work laid the foundation for computer methods in biological identification. He was posthumously honored with the naming of Taraxacum pankhurstianum.
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Meaning of the name - Richard
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Occupation: botanist | computer scientist
Employers: Natural History Museum, London | CERN | University of Cambridge
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Note: Moon position is location and time sensitive.Planet | Position (Tropical, Western) | Transits on June 8, 2025 | Secondary Progressions for June 8, 2025 |
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Sun | 17 Gemini 43 | 18 Gemini 9 | 9 Virgo 5 |
Moon | 20 Cancer 55 | 19 Scorpio 2 | 2 Virgo 24 |
Mercury | 6 Cancer 45 | 29 Gemini 30 | 6 Virgo 23 |
Venus | 13 Cancer 4 | 2 Taurus 31 | 23 Cancer 15 |
Mars | 14 Cancer 13 | 25 Leo 13 | 8 Virgo 18 |
Jupiter | 5 Taurus 3 | 29 Gemini 44 | 15 Taurus 34 |
Saturn | 10 Taurus 0 | 0 Aries 51 | 14 Taurus 56 |
Uranus | 23 Taurus 32 | 28 Taurus 34 | 26 Taurus 9 |
Neptune | 22 Virgo 44 | 1 Aries 59 | 24 Virgo 39 |
Pluto | 1 Leo 16 | 3 Aquarius 32 | 3 Leo 30 |
Rahu | 17 Libra 5 | 23 Pisces 5 | 12 Libra 35 |
Ketu | 17 Aries 5 | 23 Virgo 5 | 12 Aries 35 |
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