Peter Guthrie Tait

Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician, born at Dalkeith. He was educated in Edinburgh. He became senior wrangler at Cambridge, and Smith's prizeman in 1852. In 1854, he was elected professor of Mathematics at Belfast, and in 1860 professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh. He did a great deal of experimental work, especially in thermo-electricity, and has contributed important papers on pure mathematics. He wrote, along with Lord Kelvin, "Treatise on Natural Philosophy," and along with Balfour Stewart "The Unseen Universe," followed by "Paradoxical Philosophy".

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