Hubert Anson Newton

H. A. Newton
Hubert Anson Newton, around 1879
Born (1830-03-19)19 March 1830
Sherburne, New York
Died 12 August 1896(1896-08-12) (aged 66)
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Nationality American
Alma mater Yale University
Known for Science of meteors
Awards Smith gold medal
Scientific career
Fields Astronomer and mathematician
Institutions Yale University
Academic advisors Michel Chasles[1]
Doctoral students E. H. Moore
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Charles Newton Little
Arthur W. Wright
Signature

Prof Hubert Anson Newton FRS HFRSE (19 March 1830 – 12 August 1896), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.

Biography

Newton was born at Sherburne, New York, and graduated from Yale in 1850 with a B.A. The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists his advisor as Michel Chasles. In 1855, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Yale. The study of the laws of meteors and of comets and their interrelation was his chief labor. He attempted to contribute to the theory advanced by Denison Olmsted of Yale in 1833 that meteors were a part of a mass of bodies moving round the sun in a fixed orbit.

In 1861, he supervised the work of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences in regard to the August and November meteors. He became a worldwide authority on the subjects of meteors and comets. He won the Smith gold medal from the National Academy of Sciences, was elected an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1885), and was foreign member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Many of his papers on meteors were published in the Memoirs of the National Academy, the Journal of Science, and the American Journal of Science.

Family

In 1859 he married Miss Stiles.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Hubert Anson Newton" – National Academy of Sciences
  2. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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