Mathematician:John Scott Russell

Mathematician

Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built SS Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Made the discovery of the wave of translation that gave birth to the modern study of solitons.

Nationality

Scottish

History

• Born: 9 May 1808 in Parkhead, Glasgow, Scotland
• Died: 8 June 1882 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England

Publications

• 1845: Report on Waves
• 1864: The Modern System of Naval Architecture
• 1885: The Wave of Translation in the Oceans of Water, Air, and Ether

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "John Scott Russell": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive