Edinburgh University / Royal Society of Edinburgh / Queen’s College / Paris Academy of Sciences / Edinburgh Academy / Royal and Ancient / McLaren High School / Yale / Woolwich / Unwritten Chapter on Golf / James Clerk Maxwell Foundation / University of Notre Dame / /
Person
Willard Gibbs / David Brewster / Peter Guthrie / James Wood / Philip Kelland / Chris Denley / Francis Bashforth / Thomas Penyngton Kirkman / Peter Guthrie Tait / James Thomson / William Thomson / Michael Crowe / George Stokes / James Clerk Maxwell / Benjamin Robins / Heinrich Gustav Magnus / Edward Appleton / Thomas Andrews / Kelvin / Oliver Heaviside / Johann Benedict Listing / Chris Pritchard / James David Forbes / David Forfar / Martin Gardner / James Waddell Alexander / Arthur Cayley / Trinity / /
Position
professor / there was no physical laboratory / Clerk / prestigious chair / prolific writer / Professor of Applied Mathematics / mathematics chair / author / professor / Professor of Natural Philosophy / one of the founders / golfer / scientist / pioneer researcher / physicist / model / Professor of Engineering / Professor of Pure Mathematics / amateur golfer / lecturer / Porter / Victorian Scientist / /
PublishedMedium
The Scotsman / Scientific American / the Life and Work / the Proceedings of the Royal Society / /
Aspects of the Life and Work of Peter Guthrie Tait, FRSE1 An essay by Dr. Chris Pritchard, PhD, FIMA, McLaren High School, Callander, Scotland.