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Name
  
Henry Watson


Role
  
Mathematician

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Died
  
January 11, 1903, Berkswell, United Kingdom

Books
  
The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism: Magnetism and electrodynamics

Education
  
Trinity College, Cambridge, King's College London

Rev. Henry William Watson FRS (25 February 1827, Marylebone, London – 11 January 1903, Berkswell near Coventry) was a mathematician and author of a number of mathematics books. He was an ordained priest and Cambridge Apostle.

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Henry William Watson Henry William Watson 1827 1903 Genealogy

Life

He was born at Marylebone on 25 Feb. 1827. He was the son of Thomas Watson, R.N., and Eleanor Mary Kingston.

He was educated at King's College London and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated as second wrangler and Smith's prizeman in 1850, Dr. W. H. Besant being senior wrangler. He became fellow in 1851, and from 1851 to 1853 was assistant tutor. Watson formed a close friendship with James Fitzjames Stephen, who entered Trinity in 1847.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1881. He and Francis Galton introduced the Galton–Watson process in 1875.

Books by H. W. Watson

  • The mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism (Volume 1: electrostatics) (Clarendon, Oxford, 1885–1889)
  • The mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism (Volume 2: magnetism & electrodynamics) (Clarendon, Oxford, 1885–1889)
  • A treatise on the application of generalised coordinates to the kinetics of a material system (Clarendon, Oxford, 1879)
  • A treatise on the kinetic theory of gases (Clarendon, Oxford, 1893)
  • References

    Henry William Watson Wikipedia