Papers and correspondence of William Hunter McCrea, Knight, mathematician, physicist and astronomer, 1904-1999 1890-2004

Royal Observatory, Greenwich

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The Royal Observatory dates its foundation from two warrants issued under the name of Charles II. On 4 March 1675 John Flamsteed was appointed 'royal observator' to the King, and on the following 22 June another warrant authorised the construction of 'a small observatory within our royal park at Greenwich'. The first warrant stated that Flamsteed was 'to apply himself...so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places'. The second warrant gave the purpose of the constructi...

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

University of Sussex.

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Plaskett Henry Hemley 1893-1980

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McCrea William Hunter 1904-1999

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Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944

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Astronomer and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83660356 From the description of Letters. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82863606 From the description of Papers, 1905-1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78824422 Educated at Owen's College, Manchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. Senior Wrangler, 1904. Smith's Prizeman, 1907. Chief Assistant, Royal Observatory (Greenwich), 1906-1913. Plumian Prof...

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College

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Due to cuts in Higher Education Funding during the 1970s, University of London Colleges faced competition and so began to look at merging in order to avoid closure. Bedford and Royal Holloway signed a merger agreement in 1982 and Bedford gradually moved over to the Egham campus, in time for students to start at the merged college in the year 1985/6. In 1992 the day to day name of the College was changed to Royal Holloway, University of London although its legal title remains as Royal Holloway an...

Woolley, Richard van der Riet

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Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1944

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Sir William Hunter McCrea, mathematician, physicist and astronomer, 1904-1999

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William Hunter McCrea was born on 13 December 1904 in Dublin but moved to Chesterfield, Derbyshire before he was three. Here he was educated at the Central (elementary) School and the Grammar School, from which he won an entrance scholarship in Mathematics to Trinity College, Cambridge. He read for the Mathematical Tripos, becoming a Wrangler 1926, and after graduating began research with R.H. Fowler. Recognition came early with a Cambridge University Rayleigh Prize, a T...

Royal Astronomical Society

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Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950

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