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H. A. Newton
Hubert Anson Newton (1830-1896)
Born
19 March 1830
Sherburne, New York
Died
12 August 1896 (aged 66)
New Haven, Connecticut,
USA
Nationality
American
Fields
Astronomer and
mathematician
Institutions
Yale University
Alma mater
Yale University
Academic
advisors
Michel Chasles
Doctoral students
E. H. Moore
J osiah Willard Gibbs
Charles Newton Little
Arthur W. Wright
Known for
Science of meteors
Notable awards
Smith gold medal
Signature
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hubert Anson Newton (19 March 1830 – 12 August 1896)
was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for
his research on meteors.
He 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.
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Hubert Anson Newton (http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-
pdfs/newton-h-a.pdf) — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Hubert Anson Newton (http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=7865) at the Mathematics Genealogy
Project
Reference to Gibbs being a student of Newton (http://www.ams.org/bull/1995-32-03
/S0273-0979-1995-00595-1/S0273-0979-1995-00595-1.pdf)
Newton biography (http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklu/personal/sigma/A-H-Newton.html)
An academic lineage containing Newton (http://www.cs.usask.ca/~mould/lineage/lineage.html)
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Burials at Grove Street Cemetery Foreign Members of the Royal Society 1830 births 1896 deaths
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