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William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made numerous major contributions to algebra, classical mechanics, and optics. His theoretical works and mathematical equations are considered fundamental to modern theoretical physics, particularly his reformulation of Lagrangian mechanics. His research included the analysis of geometrical optics, Fourier analysi…
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science · Irish mathematician and physicist (1805–1865) · mathematician · physicist · astronomer · university teacher · theoretical physicist · also William Rowan Hamilton, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Hamilton
Born 4 August 1805 · Died 2 September 1865 · Q11887
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Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be.
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2026· 3 entries
The Guardian: Lando Norris grabs F1 Hungarian GP pole while Hamilton and Antonelli are penalised
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The Guardian: Hungarian F1 GP qualifying: Lando Norris takes pole as Lewis Hamilton faces penalty – as it happened
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2005· 1 entry
To commemorate 200 years since his birth
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1960· 1 entry
Published “A RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION” in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry — cited 25,427 times.
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1956· 1 entry
Published “Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances” in Analytical Chemistry — cited 42,361 times.
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1870· 1 entry
“On the Origin and Significance of Geometrical Axioms”
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1865· 2 entries
Died 1865-09-02.
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“Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be.”
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1864· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1864).
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The newly established National Academy of Sciences elected its first Foreign Associates, and decided to put Hamilton's name on top of their list
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1853· 1 entry
The book Lectures on Quaternions had "formed the subject of successive courses of lectures, delivered in 1848 and subsequent years, in the Halls of Trinity College, Dublin"
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1847· 1 entry
Confided in John Herschel that during this period he might have become a poet
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1840· 1 entry
Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues had reached a result that amounted to their discovery in all but name
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1837· 2 entries
“Theory of Conjugate Functions, or Algebraic Couples; with a Preliminary and Elementary Essay on Algebra as the Science of Pure Time”
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To the president's chair in the Royal Irish Academy, and the rare distinction of being made a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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1835· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1835).
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Being secretary to the meeting of the British Association which was held that year in Dublin, Hamilton was knighted by the Lord Lieutenant
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1834· 3 entries
Won Cunningham Medal (1834).
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Was for his work on conical refraction, for which he also received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society the following year
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They had three children: the journalist William Edwin Hamilton (born 1834), Archibald Henry (born 1835) and Helen Eliza Amelia (born 1840).
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1832· 1 entry
Helped by an unexpected letter of introduction given to him by Sarah Lawrence on a visit to Liverpool in March of that year
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1831· 2 entries
To Ellen de Vere, a sister of the poet Aubrey De Vere, who declined as well
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Hamilton parted from him at Birmingham, to visit the Lawrence sisters and family on his mother's side in the Liverpool area
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1828· 1 entry
In the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
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1827· 5 entries
Career landmark: Royal Astronomer of Ireland (1827–1865).
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Hamilton presented a theory of a single function, now known as Hamilton's principal function, that brings together mechanics and optical theory
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And communicated to the Royal Society, in whose Philosophical Transactions for 1834 and 1835 there are two papers on the subject
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Hamilton wrote to his sister Grace about "some of" the Lawrence sisters having met his sister Eliza in Dublin
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And they ran the household until his marriage in 1833
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1826· 3 entries
About his feelings for her in an extended poem, "The Enthusiast"
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Hamilton was appointed to the vacant posts left by Brinkley's departure the following year: Andrews Professor of Astronomy and Royal Astronomer of Ireland
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Studied at Trinity College, Dublin (1823–1826).
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1825· 1 entry
Hamilton met Arabella Lawrence, younger sister of Sarah Lawrence, a significant correspondent and frank critic of his poetry
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1824· 1 entry
Hamilton was introduced at Edgeworthstown to the novelist Maria Edgeworth, by The Rev
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1823· 1 entry
To John Brinkley, who presented it under the title of Caustics in 1824 to the Royal Irish Academy
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1805· 1 entry
Born 1805-08-04.
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