Mathematician:Sydney Chapman

Mathematician

English mathematician whose most noted mathematical accomplishments were in the field of stochastic processes.

Worked out the photochemical mechanisms that give rise to the ozone layer.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 29 Jan 1888 in Eccles (near Manchester), England
• Died: 16 June 1970 in Boulder, Colorado, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Chapman Function
• Chapman-Kolmogorov Equation (with Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov)

Results named for Sydney Chapman can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Sydney Chapman can be found here.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Sydney Chapman": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive