Edward Sabine (14.10.1788-26.06.1883) was an English physicist, astronomer and traveller, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1818) and its president in 1861—71. He was born in Dublin. He received a military education and served in the army. As an astronomer he took part in the Arctic expeditions of J. Ross (1818) and W. E. Parry (1819-20). He carried out a number of experiments with the pendulum to determine the shape of the Earth. He discovered the connection between magnetic disturbances on the Earth and the periodicity of sunspots (1852).
Member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1826) and of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1875).