William Hopkins

William Hopkins (February 2nd 1793 - October 13rd 1866) is a Mathématicien and British geologist .

Hopkins is born with Kingston-one-Soar, in the Nottinghamshire. In its youth he learns the Agriculture with Norfolk then manages without success a farm of big size in the Suffolk. At the thirty years age it enters to the St Peter' S College to Cambridge. In 1833 it publishes Elements Trigonometry off. He becomes a famous particular professor, much of his pupils will become famous, for example James Clerk Maxwell.

In 1833 it meets Adam Sedgwick with Barmouth and accompanies it in several excursions, it becomes very interested by the Géologie. In articles published by the Cambridge Philosophical Society -- Company of philosophy of Cambridge -- and the Geological Society off London it explores the subjects connecting the Mathématiques and geology, treating the being exerted effect of an ascending force on the earth's crust. He discusses thus the rise in the district in the lacs, of the zone of Weald and Bottom Bolted. He also writes on the displacement of the Glacier S and the transport of the erratic rocks.

Hopkins becomes member of the Royal Society on June 1st 1837. Its work is worth the to him Médaille Wollaston in 1850. He becomes off president of the Geological Society London in 1851. At the time of the speech of nomination of its second presidency in 1853 it makes an important speech which presents and critical the theory of Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont on the rise in the assembly lines and shows the imperfections of them. Before that it presents an article to the company: One the Causes which may cuts produced exchanges in the Earth' S superficial Temperature -- On the causes which can have produced a surface change of the temperature of the surface of the Ground -- He is president of the British Association for the Advancement off Science in 1853. Its last research includes observations on the thermal Conductivité of various materials and on the effect of the pressure on their melting points. He dies in Cambridge.

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  • William Hopkins O' Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson MacTutor

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