Sir William Rowan Hamilton

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

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:mathematician gptkb:physicist astronomer
gptkbp:almaMater	gptkb:Trinity_College_Dublin
gptkbp:appointedBy	gptkb:Royal_Astronomer_of_Ireland 1827
gptkbp:award	gptkb:Royal_Medal Knighthood
gptkbp:birthDate	1805-08-04
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Dublin
gptkbp:children	gptkb:Archibald_Henry_Hamilton gptkb:Helen_Elizabeth_Hamilton gptkb:William_Edwin_Hamilton
gptkbp:deathDate	1865-09-02
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Dublin
gptkbp:discoveredBy	gptkb:Hamiltonian_mechanics quaternions
gptkbp:field	gptkb:astronomy gptkb:mathematics physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Sir William Rowan Hamilton
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:James_Clerk_Maxwell gptkb:Peter_Guthrie_Tait gptkb:William_Thomson_(Lord_Kelvin)
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Isaac_Newton gptkb:Joseph-Louis_Lagrange gptkb:Pierre-Simon_Laplace
gptkbp:knighted	1835
gptkbp:knownFor	gptkb:Hamiltonian_mechanics gptkb:optics Hamilton–Jacobi equation dynamics quaternions
gptkbp:memberOf	gptkb:Royal_Irish_Academy gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality	Irish
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:Lectures_on_Quaternions gptkb:On_a_General_Method_in_Dynamics gptkb:Theory_of_Systems_of_Rays Elements of Quaternions
gptkbp:occupation	Professor of Astronomy
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Church_of_Ireland
gptkbp:restingPlace	gptkb:Mount_Jerome_Cemetery
gptkbp:signature	William Rowan Hamilton signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse	gptkb:Helen_Maria_Bayly
gptkbp:title	Sir
gptkbp:workInstitution	gptkb:Dunsink_Observatory gptkb:Trinity_College_Dublin
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh
gptkbp:bfsLayer	3