Hubert Anson Newton

Hubert Anson Newton

Infobox Scientist
name = H. A. Newton
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caption = Hubert Anson Newton (1830-1896)
birth_date = 19 March, 1830
birth_place = Sherburne, New York
death_date = 12 August, 1896
death_place = New Haven, Connecticut, USA
residence = flag|USA
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nationality = flag|USA|name=American
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field = Astronomer and mathematician
work_institutions = Yale University
alma_mater = Yale University
doctoral_advisor =
academic_advisors = Michel Chasles
doctoral_students = E. H. Moore
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Charles Newton Little
Arthur W. Wright
known_for = Science of meteors
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prizes = Smith gold medal
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Hubert Anson Newton (19 March, 1830 – 1896) was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.

He was born at Sherburne, New York, and graduated from Yale in 1850. The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists his advisor as Michel Chasles. In 1855, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Yale. The study of the laws of meteors and of comets and their interrelation was his chief labor. He attempted to contribute to the theory advanced by Professor Olmsted of Yale in 1833 that meteors were a part of a mass of bodies moving round the sun in a fixed orbit.

In 1861, he supervised the work of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences in regard to the August and November meteors. He became a worldwide authority on the subjects of meteors and comets. He won the Smith gold medal from the National Academy of Sciences, was elected an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1885), and was foreign member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Many of his papers on meteors were published in the "Memoirs of the National Academy", the "Journal of Science", and the "American Journal of Science".

References

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ee also

* Leonids

External links

* [http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/hnewton.pdf Newton biography by Gibbs]
* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=7865 Newton's math genealogy]
* [http://www.ams.org/bull/1995-32-03/S0273-0979-1995-00595-1/S0273-0979-1995-00595-1.pdf Reference to Gibbs being a student of Newton]
* [http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklu/personal/sigma/A-H-Newton.html Newton biography]
* [http://www.cs.usask.ca/~mould/lineage/lineage.html An academic lineage containing Newton]


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