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William Hopkins FRS (2 February 1793 – 13 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the " senior-wrangler maker."
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S tephen Hopkins was one of the most adventurous of the passengers aboard the Mayflower. He traveled with his second wife, Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins, and children Constanta, Giles and Damaris. Elizabeth was pregnant during the voyage and gave birth to a son Oceanus while at sea.
William Hopkins was an English mathematician best-known as a tutor for the Cambridge tripos examinations.
William Hopkins was an English mathematician and a geologist who proposed that the Earth’s interior is solid and not a liquid and used mathematical models to explain a number of geological phenomena.
William Hopkins FRS (2 February 1793 – 13 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the " senior-wrangler maker."
May 23, 2018 · Hopkins, William. ( b. Kingston-on-Soar, Derbyshire, England, 2 February 1793; d. Cambridge, England, 13 October 1866) geology, mathematics. The only son of a gentleman farmer, Hopkins had a desultory early education which included some practical farming in Norfolk.
William Hopkins was a renowned British mathematician and geologist who discovered that melting point of a substance rises with increasing pressure. To know more about his childhood, profile, timeline and career read on.
Mar 6, 2021 · William Hopkins Biography - English Mathematician and Geologist William Hopkins FRS (born February 2, 1793 in Kingston-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, † October 13, 1866 in Cambridge, England)...
Jan 5, 2009 · Geikie's judgement echoed an appeal made some thirty years earlier by William Hopkins (1793–1866) that the science of geology needed to be ‘elevated’ from a level of ‘indeterminate generalities’ to a rank among the stricter physical sciences.
