Sydney Chapman (mathematician)

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Sydney Chapman
Sydney Chapman 1888–1970
Born(1888-01-29)29 January 1888
Eccles, Greater Manchester, England
Died16 June 1970(1970-06-16) (aged 82)
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
University of Cambridge
Known forChapman cycle
Chapman function
Chapman–Kolmogorov equation
Chapman–Enskog theory
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1919)[1]
Smith's Prize (1913)
Adams Prize (1928)
Royal Medal (1934)
Chree Medal and Prize (1941)
De Morgan Medal (1944)
William Bowie Medal (1962)
Copley Medal (1964)
Symons Gold Medal (1965)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
University of Cambridge
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
The Queen's College, Oxford
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, University of Colorado
Academic advisorsG. H. Hardy[2]
Doctoral students

Sydney Chapman FRS (29 January 1888 – 16 June 1970)[1] was a British mathematician and geophysicist.[4] His work on the kinetic theory of gases, solar-terrestrial physics, and the Earth's ozone layer has inspired a broad range of research over many decades.[2][5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ a b Cowling, T. G. (1971). "Sydney Chapman 1888–1970". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 17: 53–89. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0003.
  2. ^ a b c Sydney Chapman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Kahn, Franz Daniel (1950). Some problems concerning the luminosity and other properties of the upper atmosphere. ethos.bl.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  4. ^ Akasofu, S. I. (1970). "In memoriam Sydney Chapman". Space Science Reviews. 11 (5): 599. Bibcode:1970SSRv...11..599A. doi:10.1007/BF00177026. S2CID 120617892.
  5. ^ Akasofu, S. I. (2011). "The scientific legacy of Sydney Chapman". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 92 (34): 281–282. Bibcode:2011EOSTr..92..281A. doi:10.1029/2011EO340001.
  6. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sydney Chapman (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  7. ^ Finding aid to papers of Sydney Chapman, Niels Bohr Library and Archives, accessed 7 September 2008
  8. ^ Sydney Chapman page at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Archived 30 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine includes sections from Sydney Chapman, Eighty, From His Friends, accessed 4 October 2008