Edmund Taylor Whittaker
1873 - 1956
- Born
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24 October 1873
Birkdale, Lancashire, England
- Died
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24/03/1956
48 George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 11/05/1905
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 32
- Occupation
- Mathematician and astronomer
- Relationships
- Parents: John Whittaker, gentleman, youngest son of the first marriage of Henry Whittaker (1780-1853) of Grindleton near Clitheroe, who was the sixth of the eight sons of Richard Whittaker of Rodhill Gate near Grindleton, and Selina Septima, daughter of Edmund Taylor, who practised as a physician at Middleton, near Manchester. Spouse: Mary Ferguson McNaghten, daughter of the Revd Thomas Boyd, of Cambridge, Scottish secretary of the Religious Tract Society; and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd. Children: Three sons and two daughters. Their second son, John McNaghten Whittaker (Jack), was professor of pure mathematics at Liverpool (1933–52) and vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield (1952–65).
- Catalogue
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Author of
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Referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'On the connexion of algebraic functions with automorphic functions' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Creator: Andrew Russell Forsyth Reference number: RR/14/104 -
Letter from William Burnside, to Mr Harrison, regarding a paper 'On the connexion of algebraic functions with automorphic functions' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Creator: William Burnside Reference number: RR/14/105 -
Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the connexion of algebraic functions with automorphic functions' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Creator: William Burnside Reference number: RR/14/106 -
Referee's report by Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich and Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of integral-equations' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Creator: Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich, Godfrey Harold Hardy Reference number: RR/24/91 -
Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'On Hilbert's world-function' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Creator: George Barker Jeffery Reference number: RR/34/132 -
Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'On the potential of electromagnetic phenomena in a gravitational field' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Creator: Arthur Stanley Eddington Reference number: RR/37/148
Referee of
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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the nature of the diffraction figures due to the heliometer' by Philip Francis Everitt
Creator: Edmund Taylor Whittaker Reference number: RR/17/397 -
Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'A critical study of spectral series.— Part I. The alkalies H and He' by William Mitchinson Hicks
Creator: Edmund Taylor Whittaker Reference number: RR/17/412 -
Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Pendulum clocks and their errors' by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock
Creator: Edmund Taylor Whittaker Reference number: RR/18/164 -
Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'A critical study of spectral series.–Part II. The p and s sequences and the atomic volume term' by William Mitchinson Hicks
Creator: Edmund Taylor Whittaker Reference number: RR/19/67 -
Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'A new treatment of optical aberrations' by Ralph Allen Sampson
Creator: Edmund Taylor Whittaker Reference number: RR/19/113 -
Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On a cassegrain reflector with corrected field' by Ralph Allen Sampson
Creator: Edmund Taylor Whittaker Reference number: RR/19/115