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Authorised form of nameAllman; George Johnston (1824 - 1904)
Dates1824 - 1904
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth28 September 1824
Place of deathFarnham House, Finglass, Dublin, Ireland
Date of death09/05/1904
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1844), LLD
Career:
Professor of Mathematics, Queen's College, Galway (1853-1893); wrote 'History of Greek geometry from Thales to Euclid ' (1889); died of pneumonia
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1884
RelationshipsSon of William Allman MD; married (1853) Louisa daughter of John Smith Taylor of Dublin
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1906-1907 vol 78 pp xii-xiii signed by B W
CodeNA6667
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/8/88Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons13 July 1893
EC/1884/07Allman, George Johnston: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/000082Allman, George Johnston1890
NLB/3/163Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Johnston Allman, Fellow of the Royal Society, St Mary's, Galway2 April 1889
NLB/28/770Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons17 May 1904
NLB/28/404Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to Messrs Harrison & Sons1 March 1904
IM/Maull/000083Allman, George Johnstonnd
AP/74/2Unpublished paper, 'Contributions to the theory of simultaneous partial differential equations' by Alfred Cardew Dixon1898
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