喬治·霍華德·達爾文爵士,KCB,FRS,FRSE(,),英國天文學家和數學家。他是查爾斯·達爾文和艾瑪·達爾文的第二個兒子(所有兒女中排行第五)。
生平
他出生在父親查爾斯·達爾文的唐恩小築(Down House)。他是英國天文學家查爾斯·普里查德(Charles Pritchard)的學生,在1863年進入劍橋大學聖約翰學院(St John's College, Cambridge);之後他轉到劍橋大學三一學院,導師成為愛德華·羅斯(Edward Routh)1868年畢業。1872年他取得律師資格,但不久他重新開始研究科學。
1892年他獲得英國皇家天文學會金質獎章,不久出任英國皇家天文學會會長。
家庭
他和來自美國賓州費城的Martha (Maud) du Puy結婚,有二子二女:
- 關·拉維拉(1885–1957),藝術家。
- 查尔斯·高尔顿·达尔文(1887–1962), 物理學家。
- 瑪格莉特·伊莉莎白·達爾文(1890–1974),和傑佛瑞·凱因斯爵士結婚。
- 威廉·羅伯特·達爾文(1894–1970)。
參考資料
著作
- [http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/T/TID/tides.html "Tides"] (Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, 1875–89)
- [http://www.archive.org/details/tideskindredphen00darwuoft The tides and kindred phenomena in the solar system] (Boston, Houghton, 1899)
- [http://www.archive.org/details/problemsconnecte00darwrich Problems connected with the tides of a viscous spheroid] (London, Harrison and Sons, 1879–1882)
- [http://www.archive.org/details/scientificpapers01darwrich Scientific papers (Volume 1)]: Oceanic tides and lunar disturbances of gravity (Cambridge : University Press, 1907)
- [http://www.archive.org/details/scientificpapers02darwrich Scientific papers (Volume 2)]: Tidal friction and cosmogony. (Cambridge : University Press, 1908)
- [http://www.archive.org/details/scientificpapers03darwrich Scientific papers (Volume 3)]: Figures of equilibrium of rotating liquid and geophysical investigations. (Cambridge : University Press, 1908)
- [http://www.archive.org/details/scientificpapers04darwrich Scientific papers (Volume 4)]: Periodic orbits and miscellaneous papers. (Cambridge : University Press, 1911)
- [http://www.archive.org/details/scientificpapers05darwrich Scientific papers (Volume 5)] Supplementary volume, containing biographical memoirs by Sir Francis Darwin and Professor E. W. Brown, lectures on Hill's lunar theory, etc... (Cambridge : University Press, 1916)
- The Scientific Papers of Sir George Darwin. 1907. Cambridge University Press (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108004497)
外部連結
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- [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/modern-science/chapter28.html "The Genesis of Double Stars"] - by George Darwin, from A.C. Seward's [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/seward_modern-science.html Darwin and Modern Science] (1909).
- [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P7464 Archival material relating to George Darwin] listed at the UK National Register of Archives.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040513214342/http://www.nahste.ac.uk/cgi-bin/view_isad.pl?id=GB-0237-Sir-Archibald-Geikie-Gen-524-14&view=basic details of correspondence]
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