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Milne was President of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1943–1945. During World War II he again worked on ballistics. Milne married Margaret Scott Campbell on 26 June 1928 at Withington, Manchester. Campbell, from Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland, was the daughter of Hugh Fraser Campbell, an advocate in Aberdeen.
Edward Arthur Milne was an English astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his development of kinematic relativity. Milne was educated at the University of Cambridge and served as assistant director of the Solar Physics Observatory at Cambridge from 1920 to 1924.
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Learn about the life and achievements of Arthur Milne, a mathematician, astrophysicist and cosmologist who made groundbreaking contributions to science and education. From his humble origins in Hull to his academic career in Cambridge, Manchester and Oxford, he faced challenges, controversies and recognition.
Sep 23, 2021 · Arthur Milne was born in Hull, England. His university education consisted of but a year and a half at the University of Cambridge, which he left to engage in important research on the physics of antiaircraft guns during World War I. Afterward he spent five years at Cambridge, where he became assistant director of the solar physics observatory in 1920, and then three as a professor of mathematics at the University of Manchester. In 1929 he was appointed Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at ...
Milne, Edward Arthur. Born Hull, England, 14 February 1896. Died Dublin, Ireland, 21 September 1950. British mathematician Edward Milne contributed many of the ideas that have made it possible to analyze the spectra of stars and determine the temperatures, densities, and chemical compositions of their atmospheres, some of those ideas carrying ...
W H McCrea, Edward Arthur Milne, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 7 (1950-51), 421-443. M Weston Smith, E A Milne and the creation of air defence: some letters from an unprincipled brigand, 1916 - 1919 , Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 44 (2) (1990) , 241 - 255 .
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Dec 11, 2013 · Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950 Wed, 12/11/2013 - 14:13 Physicist (theoretical astrophysics) and mathematician; Milne was the first holder of the Rouse Ball Professorship at Oxford (1928-50).
