E. T. Whittaker

Details

Instance of

human

Born

24 October 1873

Died

24 March 1956

Place of birth

Southport

Place of death

Edinburgh

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Edmund, Taylor

Family name

Whittaker

Child

John Macnaghten Whittaker, Stephen Robert Ferguson Whittaker

Field of work

mathematics, physics, philosophy, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, astronomy, celestial mechanics, history of natural science

Occupation

mathematician, astronomer, historian of science, university teacher, philosopher, physicist

Position held

Andrews Professor of Astronomy, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Religion

Catholicism

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, De Morgan Medal, Guthrie Lecture, Sylvester Medal, Smith's Prize, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Tyson Medal

academic degree

doctorate, Legum Doctor, Doctor of Science

archives at

University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services

birth name

Edmund Taylor Whittaker

depicted by

Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)

doctoral advisor

Andrew Forsyth, George Howard Darwin

doctoral student

G.H. Hardy, G. N. Watson, W. V. D. Hodge, Arthur Eddington, Alexander Aitken, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, James Hopwood Jeans, George Cunliffe McVittie, Ramaswamy S. Vaidyanathaswamy, Philip Gerard Gormley, Leslie Cunningham

educated at

Trinity College, The Manchester Grammar School, University of Cambridge

employer

University of Cambridge, Trinity College, Dublin, University of Edinburgh, Royal Astronomer of Ireland

honorific prefix

Sir

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

Royal Society of London, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Royal Society of Edinburgh, American Philosophical Society

name in native language

Edmund Taylor Whittaker

notable work

Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula, Whittaker function, Whittaker model, Whittaker and Watson, A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies

place of burial

Mount Vernon Cemetery

relative

Edward Copson

student

G.H. Hardy, G. N. Watson, Pierre Humbert, Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington

student of

Ernest William Hobson

topic's main category

Category:E. T. Whittaker

writing language

English

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