Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 - September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation. Hamilton's work was later significant in the development of quantum mechanics. Hamilton is said to have showed immense talent at a very early age, prompting astronomer Bishop Dr. Wikipedia
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The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre formally established at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth in November 2001. www.hamilton.ie
SIR William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), Scottish mathematician, was born in Dublin on the 4th of August 1805. 31.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HA/HAMILTON_SIR_WILLIAM_ROWAN.htm
William Rowan Hamilton was Ireland's most famous scientist. You can find out more about Hamilton here . The watermark on these web-pages is an extract from Hamilton's notebook, describing the properties of quaternions. The image is reproduced by kind p www.hamilton.tcd.ie/
Hamilton taught himself mathematics at age 17, and discovered an error in Laplace's Celestial Mechanics. scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/HamiltonWilliamRowan.html
