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PROF. SYDNEY CHAPMAN, whose appointment as Sedleian professor of natural philosophy in the University of Oxford has just been announced, began his academic life as an engineer, taking first-class honours at Manchester in engineering in 1907 ; but then turned to mathematics and took first-class honours in 1908. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he continued to read mathematics, and in 1910 was appointed a chief assistant at Greenwich Observatory. He was Smith's Prizeman in 1913 and was a fellow of Trinity during 1913-19, when he returned to Manchester as professor of mathematics. In 1924 he moved to London, being appointed chief professor of mathematics at the Imperial College. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1919, and he has also served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society, the Royal Astronomical Society and the London Mathematical Society. During the War he was engaged in work for the War Office and at present is chairman of the Meteorological Research Committee of the Air Ministry.
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Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford: Prof. Sydney Chapman, F.R.S. Nature 157, 155 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157155b0
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