George Chrystal

George Chrystal

Infobox Scientist
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birth_place = Old Meldrum, Scotland
death_date = death date and age|1911|11|03|1851|03|08
death_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
residence = Scotland
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nationality = Scottish
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fields = Physicist and mathematician
workplaces = University of St Andrews
University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
alma_mater = University of Aberdeen
University of Cambridge
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academic_advisors = James Clerk Maxwell
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notable_students = Joseph Wedderburn
known_for = Experimental verification of Ohm's law
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awards = Royal Medal
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George Chrystal (1851 – 1911) was a Scottish mathematician.

He was born in Old Meldrum and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen, moving in 1872 to study under James Clerk Maxwell at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated Second wrangler in 1875, joint with William Burnside, and was elected a fellow of Corpus Christi. He was appointed to the Regius Chair of Mathematics at University of St. Andrews in 1877, and then in 1879 to the Chair in Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. In 1911, he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.

He was a contributor to the drafting of the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889 and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

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