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Who is Sir William Rowan Hamilton?

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Sir William Rowan Hamilton 1805-65 Irish mathematician and astronomer b. Dublin. A child prodigy he had mastered 13 languages by the age of 13 and was still an undergraduate when he became professor of astronomy at the Univ. of Dublin (1827).

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