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William Rowan Hamilton

William Rowan Hamilton
William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1865)

Sir William Rowan Hamilton MRIA, FRAS was an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, living at Dunsink Observatory.

4 August 1805

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