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Glaisher is a surname, and may refer to:

Cecilia Glaisher was an English amateur photographer, artist, illustrator and print-maker, working in the 1850s world of Victorian science and natural history.

James Glaisher British meteorologist and aeronaut

James Glaisher FRS was an English meteorologist, aeronaut and astronomer.

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher English mathematician and astronomer

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher FRS FRSE FRAS, son of James Glaisher the meteorologist and Cecilia Glaisher the photographer, was a prolific English mathematician and astronomer.

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Glaisher (crater) impact crater

Glaisher is a lunar impact crater that is located in the region of terrain that forms the southwest border of Mare Crisium. It lies to the southwest of the lava-flooded crater Yerkes, and west-northwest of the Greaves–Lick crater pair. It is surrounded by a ring of satellite craters of various dimensions, the larger companions generally being arranged to the south of Glaisher.

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