William Esson
Appearance
William Esson | |
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Born | 1838 Abingdon, England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford |
Known for | Mathematics of the rate of chemical change |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
William Esson, FRS (17 May 1838 – 28 August 1916) was a British mathematician.
Early life
He was born in Carnoustie, Scotland.[1]
Esson attended
Oxford
.
Career
He then became a
Merton College.[2] In 1892, he became the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford, based at New College. He worked on problems in chemistry with Augustus George Vernon Harcourt
.
In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1895 delivered, jointly with Harcourt, their Bakerian Lecture on the Laws of Connexion between the Conditions of a Chemical Change and its Amount. III. Further Researches on the Reaction of Hydrogen Dioxide and Hydrogen Iodide.[3]
He was on the governing body of Abingdon School until 1900.[4]
Personal life
In 1874, Esson leased 13
References
- ^ Obituary notice, Fellow: Esson, William, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 77, p.299, 1917MNRAS..77..299., The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
- ^ Obituary, Royal Society of Chemistry
- ^ "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- ^ "School Notes" (PDF). The Abingdonian.
- ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ GRO Register of Deaths: Deaths SEP 1916 2c 348 ABINGDON — Willian Esson, aged 78