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gptkb:person
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gptkbp:almaMater
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gptkb:Trinity_College,_Cambridge
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gptkbp:awardReceived
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gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkb:Royal_Medal
gptkb:Smith's_Prize
gptkb:Sylvester_Medal
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gptkbp:birthDate
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1873-10-24
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gptkbp:child
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gptkb:John_Macnaghten_Whittaker
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gptkbp:deathDate
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1956-03-24
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gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor
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gptkb:Andrew_Forsyth
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gptkbp:editor
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gptkb:Edinburgh_Mathematical_Society_Proceedings
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gptkbp:employer
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gptkb:Imperial_College_London
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Edinburgh
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gptkbp:fieldOfWork
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gptkb:astronomy
applied mathematics
mathematical analysis
mathematical physics
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gptkbp:fullName
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gptkb:Edmund_Taylor_Whittaker
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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E. T. Whittaker
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gptkbp:influenced
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history of science
mathematical physics
theory of special functions
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gptkbp:knighted
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1945
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gptkbp:knownFor
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gptkb:A_Course_of_Modern_Analysis
gptkb:History_of_the_Theories_of_Aether_and_Electricity
gptkb:Whittaker–Shannon_interpolation_formula
gptkb:Whittaker_function
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gptkbp:memberOf
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gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh
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gptkbp:nationality
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British
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gptkbp:notableStudent
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gptkb:Arthur_Eddington
gptkb:Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:physicist
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gptkbp:placeOfBirth
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gptkb:Southport,_Lancashire,_England
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gptkbp:placeOfDeath
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gptkb:Edinburgh,_Scotland
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gptkbp:religion
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gptkb:Roman_Catholicism
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Mary_Ferguson_Macnaghten_Boyd
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gptkbp:title
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Sir
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gptkb:Edinburgh_Mathematical_Society
gptkb:William_V._D._Hodge
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