Everything about William Mccrea Astronomer totally explained
Sir William Hunter McCrea (
13 December 1904 –
April 25 1999) was an
Irish astronomer and
mathematician.
Born in
Dublin on
December 13,
1904, he attended
Trinity College, Cambridge and was later appointed a lecturer of mathematics at the
University of Edinburgh. He also served as reader and assistant professor at
Imperial College London. In
1936 he became head of the mathematics department at the
Queen's University of Belfast. After serving in the war, he joined the mathematics department at
Royal Holloway College in
1944 (the McCrea Building on Royal Holloway's campus is named after him). In
1965, McCrea created the astronomy centre of the physics department at the
University of Sussex.
McCrea was president of the
Royal Astronomical Society from
1961 to
1963 and president of Section A of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science from
1965 to
1966. He was knighted in
1985.
He won the
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in
1976.
McCrea died on
April 25,
1999 in
Lewes.
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