Sydney Chapman
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 55 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 29,1888 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Eccles |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | June 16,1970 |
| Died | Boulder |
| Colorado | |
| United States | |
| Nationality | English |
| British | |
| Children | Cecil Chapman |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Physicist | |
| Astronomer | |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| The University of Manchester | |
| Trinity College | |
| Books | IGY: Year of Discovery |
| Atmospheric Tides: Thermal and Gravitational | |
| The earth's magnetism | |
| Solar plasma, geomagnetism, and aurora | |
| Solar-terrestrial Physics: An Account of the Wave and Particle Radiations from the Quiet and the Active Sun, and of the Consequent Terrestrial Phenomena | |
| The Average Morphology of Geomagnetic Storms with Sudden Commencement | |
| Notes on the Solar Corona and the Terrestrial Ionosphere: Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics, V2 | |
| The Lunar and Solar Daily Variations of the Horizontal Geomagnetic Vector at Greenwich 1843-1913 | |
| The mathematical theory of non-uniform gases | |
| Awards | Copley Medal |
| Royal Medal | |
| Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| De Morgan Medal | |
| Grandchildren | Matthew Chapman |
| Academic advisor | G. H. Hardy |
| Joseph Larmor | |
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| ID | 602182 |
Sydney Chapman Life story
Sydney Chapman FRS was a British mathematician and geophysicist. His work on the kinetic theory of gases, solar-terrestrial physics, and the Earth's ozone layer has inspired a broad range of research over many decades.
