Mathematician:William Hunter McCrea

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Mathematician

Irish mathematician, physicist and astronomer who specialised in solar physics.


Nationality

Irish (then part of Great Britain).


History

  • Born: 13 Dec 1904, Dublin, Ireland
  • Died: 25 April 1999, Lewes, Sussex, England


Publications

  • 1929: Problems concerning the outer layers of the sun
  • 1935: Relativity Physics
  • 1950: Physics of Sun and Stars
  • 1969: Cosmology
  • 1975: The Royal Greenwich Observatory
  • 1987: History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1920 to 1980


Also known as

Known to his friends as Bill.


Sources