Sydney Chapman

Sydney Chapman

“I have often come to making enthusiastic schemes for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually have faced crucifixion if it had been suddenly necessary; and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with any one for two days together, as I know by experience. As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he”

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“but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In my dreams,”

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Published “Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK” in The Lancet — cited 4,170 times.

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Sydney Chapman

Published “2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: <i>lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk</i>” in European Heart Journal — cited 7,931 times.

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Published “2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension” in European Heart Journal — cited 8,343 times.

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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,807 times.

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Published “Improved Survival with Vemurafenib in Melanoma with BRAF V600E Mutation” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 6,575 times.

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Published “Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics” in Bioinformatics — cited 5,979 times.

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Published “Comparison of Photovoltaic Array Maximum Power Point Tracking Techniques” in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion — cited 4,226 times.

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“They were renewed by love. The heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”

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“The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”

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“There have been women I have loved … A lot, as discreetly as possible.”

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“There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio: What is sacred? Of what is spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is only love.”

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“Address at Dedication of Wheaton College Library, 1973”

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Died 1970-06-16.

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Chapman died in Boulder, Colorado, at the age of 82

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In 1970, Chapman died in Boulder, Colorado, at the age of 82.

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Won Emil Wiechert Medal (1969).

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Won Copley Medal (1964).

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Was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society and in 1965 the Symons Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society

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“Life Ahead : On Learning and the Search for Meaning”

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Won William Bowie Medal (1962).

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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1962).

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“being to timelessness as it's to time”

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On his retirement from Oxford, Chapman took research and teaching opportunities all over the world, including at the University of Alaska and the University of Colorado, but also as far afield as Istanbul, Cairo, Prague,

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Between Chapman and scientists including James Van Allen

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Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1949).

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Was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1953

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Chapman coined the term: Aeronomy, which is used today to describe the scientific field of high-altitude research into atmosphere/space interaction

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Career landmark: Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy (1946–1953).

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Chapman was elected to the Sedleian Chair of Natural Philosophy at Oxford, and was appointed fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford

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Won De Morgan Medal (1944).

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Won Chree Medal and Prize (1941).

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Career landmark: President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1941–1943).

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Chapman and a German colleague Julius Bartels published a book in two volumes on geomagnetism, which was to become the standard text book for the next two decades

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Won Royal Medal (1934).

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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1931).

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The photochemical mechanisms that give rise to the ozone layer

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Awarded Adams Prize (1928).

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Career landmark: Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics (1920–1924).

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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1919).

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Awarded Smith's Prize (1913).

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Election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919, Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924, Royal Society Bakerian lecturer in 1931, Royal Society Royal Medal in 1934, London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal in 1944

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Studied at Trinity College (1908–1910).

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Studied at Victoria University of Manchester (1904–1908).

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Studied at University of Salford (1902–1904).

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At age 16, Chapman entered the University of Manchester

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Born 1888-01-29.

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“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”

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“When I have fears that I may cease to be”

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“A Handful of Pleasant Deities”

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