Hubert Anson Newton
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Hubert Anson Newton, around 1879
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Born | Sherburne, New York |
19 March 1830
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
Nationality | American |
Fields | Astronomer and mathematician |
Institutions | Yale University |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Academic advisors | Michel Chasles |
Doctoral students | E. H. Moore Josiah Willard Gibbs Charles Newton Little Arthur W. Wright |
Known for | Science of meteors |
Notable awards | Smith gold medal |
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Hubert Anson Newton (19 March 1830 – 12 August 1896), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.
Biography
Newton was born at Sherburne, New York, and graduated from Yale in 1850 with a B.A. 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 Denison 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.
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References
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External links
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- Hubert Anson Newton — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
- Hubert Anson Newton at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Reference to Gibbs being a student of Newton
- Newton biography
- An academic lineage containing Newton
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- American academics
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- American astronomers
- 19th-century American mathematicians
- Yale University alumni
- People from New York
- Burials at Grove Street Cemetery
- Foreign Members of the Royal Society
- 1830 births
- 1896 deaths