Mathematician:George Neville Watson

English mathematician, who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 31 January 1886 in Westward Ho!, Devon, England
 * Died: 2 February 1965 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Watson's Lemma
 * Sommerfeld-Watson Transform (with Arnold Sommerfeld)

Books and Papers

 * 1922: The theory of Bessel functions