E. T. Whittaker
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Sir Edmund Whittaker, Edmund T. Whittaker, Edmund Whittaker
British mathematician (1873-1956)
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Vinony catalogs E. T. Whittaker in its Copley Medal collection (280 entries). It also appears in Fellows of the Royal Society.
Within Vinony's link graph, E. T. Whittaker is referenced by 416 other articles, and connects out to integral, G.H. Hardy and Laplace's equation.
Vinony files it under 1873 births, 1956 deaths and 20th-century British physicists.
Its subject is documented across 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Taylor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Southport
- Place of death
- Edinburgh
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Employer
- Royal Astronomer of Ireland
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Science
- Doctoral advisor
- George Howard Darwin
- Student of
- Ernest William Hobson
- Image
- Edmund Taylor Whitakker by Arthur Trevor Haddon.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1873-10-24
- date of death
- 1956-03-24
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- birth name
- Edmund Taylor Whittaker
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Edmund Taylor Whittaker
- Commons category
- E. T. Whittaker
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- relative
- Edward Copson
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Lamorlaye
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Categories
1873 births1956 deaths20th-century British physicists20th-century Irish astronomersAcademics of the University of EdinburghAcademics of Trinity College DublinAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeBritish applied mathematiciansBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish mathematical physicistsBritish textbook writersBritish theoretical physicistsConverts to Roman CatholicismDe Morgan MedallistsDirectors of Dunsink ObservatoryEnglish historiansEnglish Roman CatholicsE. T. WhittakerFellows of the Royal Society of EdinburghHistorians of physicsInternational members of the American Philosophical SocietyKnights BachelorMathematics education in the United KingdomMembers of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences