
William Hopkins
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 159 years ago |
Date of birth | February 2,1793 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Kingston On Soar |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | October 13,1866 |
Died | Cambridge |
United Kingdom | |
Books | On the Theory of the Motion of Glaciers |
Kingston on Soar, United Kingdom | |
Elements of Trigonometry | |
Nationality | English |
British | |
Education | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
Peterhouse Cambridge | |
University of Cambridge | |
Peterhouse | |
Notable student | William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin |
James Clerk Maxwell | |
Lord Kelvin | |
Awards | Wollaston Medal |
Academic advisor | Adam Sedgwick |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1817569 |
William Hopkins Life story
William Hopkins FRS was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the "senior-wrangler maker."