Mathematician:Charles Galton Darwin

Mathematician

English physicist.

Served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War

Grandson of Charles Robert Darwin.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 19 December 1887 in Newnham Grange, Cambridge, England
• Died: 1 December 1962 in Newnham Grange, Cambridge, England

Publications

• 1931: The New Conceptions of Matter
• 1952: The Next Million Years

Notable Quotes

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. (1931)

-- Quoted in 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics: They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Charles Galton Darwin": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say