Peter Guthrie Tait

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Peter_Guthrie_Tait

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gptkbp:birthDate	1831-04-28
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Dalkeith,_Scotland
gptkbp:child	gptkb:Frederick_Guthrie_Tait gptkb:John_Guthrie_Tait
gptkbp:coauthor	gptkb:William_Thomson_(Lord_Kelvin)
gptkbp:deathDate	1901-07-04
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Edinburgh,_Scotland
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor	gptkb:William_Hopkins
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gptkbp:honorificPrefix	gptkb:professor
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Peter Guthrie Tait
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gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:James_Clerk_Maxwell
gptkbp:knownFor	gptkb:Tait_conjectures quaternions thermodynamics knot theory
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gptkbp:nationality	Scottish
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:An_Elementary_Treatise_on_Quaternions gptkb:Treatise_on_Natural_Philosophy Sketch of Thermodynamics
gptkbp:occupation	gptkb:mathematician gptkb:physicist
gptkbp:positionHeld	Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Edinburgh Professor of Mathematics, Queen's College, Belfast
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Presbyterianism
gptkbp:residence	gptkb:Edinburgh,_Scotland
gptkbp:restingPlace	gptkb:Grange_Cemetery,_Edinburgh
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