James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
Born(1848-11-05)5 November 1848
Lewisham, England
Died7 December 1928(1928-12-07) (aged 80)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forGlaisher's theorem
Glaisher–Kinkelin constant
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Astronomy

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher FRS FRSE FRAS (5 November 1848, in Lewisham[1] – 7 December 1928, in Cambridge), son of James Glaisher and Cecilia Glaisher, was a prolific English mathematician and astronomer.[2][3] His large collection of (mostly) English ceramics was mostly left to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

  1. ^ Garfinkle, Robert A. (2014). "Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee". In Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R. (eds.). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer Publishing. pp. 818–819. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_523. ISBN 978-1-4419-9917-7.
  2. ^ Turner, Herbert Hall (1929). "James Whitbread Lee Glaisher". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 89 (4): 300–308. Bibcode:1929MNRAS..89..300.. doi:10.1093/mnras/89.4.300.
  3. ^ Hunt, John L. (1996). "J. W. L. Glaisher, FRS, ScD (1848–1928)". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 37 (4): 743–757. Bibcode:1996QJRAS..37R.743H. Retrieved 9 June 2016.

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