Category:Sydney Chapman

**Sydney Chapman**
	British mathematician and geophysicist (1888–1970)
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Name in native language	Sydney Chapman;
Date of birth	29 January 1888; Eccles
Date of death	16 June 1970; Boulder
Place of burial	Green Mountain Cemetery (39°59′38.18″N 105°16′4.39″W);
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom;
Educated at	University of Salford (1902–1904); Victoria University of Manchester (1904–1908); Trinity College (1908–1910);
Doctoral advisor	G.H. Hardy; Joseph Larmor;
Doctoral student	Syun-Ichi Akasofu (1961); Franz Kahn (1949); George Frederick James Temple (1924);
Occupation	mathematician; astronomer; physicist; university teacher; geophysicist;
Employer	Royal Observatory (1910–1914); University of Cambridge (1914–1919); Victoria University of Manchester (1919–1924); Imperial College London (1924–1946); University of Oxford (1946–1953); University of Alaska Fairbanks (1953–1954); High Altitude Observatory (1955–);
Member of	Royal Society (1919–); German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Lincean Academy; Royal Society of Edinburgh; National Academy of Sciences (Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, 1946–);
Position held	Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy (1946–1953); Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics (1920–1924);
Field of work	physics;
Notable work	Chapman–Enskog theory; Chapman–Kolmogorov equation;
Award received	Copley Medal (1964); Royal Medal (1934); Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1949); William Bowie Medal (1962); Adams Prize (1928);
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	Q711256; ISNI: 0000000108797956; VIAF ID: 24682610; GND ID: 123743206; Library of Congress authority ID: n50036352; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12378470m; IdRef ID: 032831722; NDL Authority ID: 001096664; Libraries Australia ID: 35027371; NL CR AUT ID: mzk2013748484; SELIBR ID: 181403; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000408737; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 075281147; NORAF ID: 90227949; NUKAT ID: n01041484; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 32367; Libris-URI: 75kmmg9r1w7cndl; PLWABN ID: 9810623714205606; J9U ID: 987007272220305171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA00724066; Open Library ID: OL119547A; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 122622
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