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existing chair, of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy to which Sydney Chapman had been appointed in 1919, was renamed the Beyer Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. After Chapman's resignation, the Beyer title was applied to the chair of Applied Mathematics. There was no incumbent between 1937 and 1945.
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The first appointment in 1881 was of Arthur Schuster who held the position until 1888. After Schuster's departure, the chair of Mathematics to which Horace Lamb had been appointed in 1885 became the Beyer Professorship of Mathematics and remained so until Lamb's retirement in 1920. At this point an
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Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850-1939
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The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History
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Science in Victorian Manchester: Enterprise and Expertise
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Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
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Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Beyer, Peacock & Company
Charles Frederick Beyer
Fellows of the Royal Society
Smith's Prize
University of Manchester
Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics
Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics
Arthur Schuster
Horace Lamb
Sydney Chapman
Edward Arthur Milne
Douglas Hartree
Sydney Goldstein
James Lighthill
Fritz Ursell
David Abrahams
Paul Glendinning
The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN
978-0-8108-8888-3
Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850-1939
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
978-0-521-38153-6

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