What is "newcomb"

Newcomb may refer to:

Newcomb is a lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged Montes Taurus mountain range, to the east of the Mare Serenitatis. It lies to the northeast of the prominent crater Römer, and north-northwest of Macrobius.

This crater has a sharp-edged and somewhat irregular rim that appears polygonal more than circular. There are terraces along the inner sides, with some slumping along the northern and western inner edge. The south-southwestern part of the rim is overlaid by the smaller crater Newcomb A. The interior floor is uneven, particularly near the rim of Newcomb A. Just to the south-southeast of the crater is the satellite crater Newcomb J. This feature is named after the American astronomer Simon Newcomb.

Newcomb is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

• Anthony Newcomb (born 1941), American musicologist
• Bernard A. Newcomb, American businessperson and philanthropist, co-founder of E*TRADE
• Bryant B. Newcomb (1867–1945), American politician
• Carman A. Newcomb (1830–1902), American politician, lawyer and judge
• Cyrenius A. Newcomb, Sr. (1837–1915), American businessman, reformer, and philanthropist
• Deborah Newcomb (born 1954), member of the Ohio House of Representatives
• George Newcomb (1866–1895), outlaw of the American Old West and member of the Wild Bunch
• Frank Newcomb (1846–1934), commodore in the United States Revenue Cutter Service
• Harvey Newcomb (1803–1863), American clergyman and writer
• Horatio C. Newcomb (1821–1882), American attorney, judge, and politician
• James Pearson Newcomb (1837–1907), journalist and Secretary of State of Texas
• John Lloyd Newcomb (1881–1954), American educator
• Josephine Louise Newcomb (1816–1901), American philanthropist whose grant founded H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College
• Josiah T. Newcomb (1868–1944), New York politician
• Mary Newcomb (1893–1966), American actress
• Philip Newcomb (born 1950s), American software engineer
• Rexford Newcomb (1886–1968), American academician, architect, and author
• Richard Newcomb, American war correspondent
• Robert Newcomb, fantasy writer
• Ronda Storms (born Ronda Rehnell Newcomb, 1965), American politician
• Sean Newcomb (born 1993), American baseball pitcher
• Simon Newcomb (1835–1909), Canadian astronomer and mathematician
• William Newcomb (died 1999), American professor and theoretical physicist who devised Newcomb's paradox
• Wesley Newcomb (1818–1892), American malacologist (studier of mollusks)