William Hopkins Facts
William Hopkins Facts
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| William Hopkins was born on a farm in Nottinghamshire. |
| He learned agriculture but was not successful at it. |
| Around 1831 he entered St Peter's College, Cambridge. |
| In 1827 he earned his BA in mathematics. |
| He received his MA in 1830. |
| Because he had married before graduation, he was ineligible for a fellowship. |
| He started a tutoring business and was extremely successful. |
| Not only did he earn L700-800 pounds a year, he tutored many famous mathematicians including Arthur Cayley, Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell, Isaac Todhunter, and Edward Routh. |
| In 1833 Hopkins went on several excursions with Adam Sedgwick and became very interested in geology. |
| The Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Geological Society of London published his papers on physical geology. |
| He wedded mathematics to geology and investigated the effects of force on geological formations. |
| Between 1838 and 1842 Hopkins presented papers to the Royal Society on the Earth's rotation, precession and nutation. |
| His observations led him to dispute the then accepted theory that the Earth had a largely liquid center. |
| In a British Association report in 1847 he explained earthquakes and volcanoes using his solid core model. |
| In honor of his scientific work he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in June of 1837, and earned the Geological Society of London Wollaston Medal in 1850. |
| He was elected President of the Geological Society in 1851 and President of the British Association in 1853. |
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