Alexis Caswell

Alexis Caswell (Taunton (Massachusetts), 29 de janeiro de 1799 — Providence, 8 de janeiro de 1877) foi um matemático estadunidense.

Alexis Caswell
Alexis Caswell
Nascimento	29 de janeiro de 1799 Taunton
Morte	8 de janeiro de 1877 (77 anos) Providence
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Filho(a)(s)	Sarah Swoope Caswell
Alma mater	Universidade Brown
Ocupação	matemático, astrônomo, professor universitário, biógrafo
Empregador(a)	Universidade Brown
Religião	Igreja Batista
Assinatura

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Graduado em 1822 na Universidade Brown, onde foi professor de matemática e filosofia natural (1828 - 1850) e de matemática e astronomia (1850 - 1864). Caswell foi presidente da Universidade Brown, de 1868 a 1872. Foi um dos fundadores da Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência, da qual foi presidente em 1857.

Além de diversos artigos sobre astronomia nos Reports of the Smithsonian Institution, escreveu The Life of Francis Wayland, Textbook on Astronomy e Memorial of John Barstow (1864).

Referências

Este artigo incorpora texto de uma publicação em domínio público: «Alexis Caswell». Nova Enciclopédia Internacional (em inglês). 1905

Ligações externas

Alexis Caswell (em inglês) no Find a Grave
Biographical memoir of Alexic Caswell by Lovering

Presidentes da Universidade Brown
Manning Fobes* Howell* Maxcy Messer Wayland Sears Caswell Robinson Andrews Faunce Barbour Wriston Keeney Heffner Hornig Swearer Gregorian Gee Blumstein* Simmons Paxson * indica presidente interino.

Presidentes da Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência
1848-1900	1848 William Charles Redfield 1849 Joseph Henry 1850 Alexander Dallas Bache 1851 Louis Agassiz 1852 Benjamin Peirce 1854 James Dwight Dana 1855 John Torrey 1856 James Hall 1857 Alexis Caswell 1857 Jacob Whitman Bailey 1858 Jeffries Wyman 1859 Stephen Alexander 1860 Isaac Lea 1866 Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard 1867 John Strong Newberry 1868 Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1869 John Wells Foster 1870 Thomas Sterry Hunt 1870 William Chauvenet 1871 Asa Gray 1872 John Lawrence Smith 1873 Joseph Lovering 1874 John Lawrence LeConte 1875 Julius Erasmus Hilgard 1876 William Barton Rogers 1877 Simon Newcomb 1878 Othniel Charles Marsh 1879 George Frederick Barker 1880 Lewis Henry Morgan 1881 George Jarvis Brush 1882 John William Dawson 1883 Charles Augustus Young 1884 John Peter Lesley 1885 Hubert Anson Newton 1886 Edward S. Morse 1887 Samuel Pierpont Langley 1888 John Wesley Powell 1889 Thomas Corwin Mendenhall 1890 George Lincoln Goodale 1891 Albert Benjamin Prescott 1892 Joseph LeConte 1893 William Harkness 1894 Daniel Garrison Brinton 1895 Edward Morley 1896 Theodore Nicholas Gill 1896 Edward Drinker Cope 1897 Wolcott Gibbs 1897 William John McGee 1898 Frederic Ward Putnam 1899 Grove Karl Gilbert 1899 Marcus Benjamin 1899 Edward Orton, Sr. 1900 Robert Simpson Woodward
1901-1925	1901 Charles Sedgwick Minot 1902 Ira Remsen 1902 Asaph Hall 1903 Carroll Davidson Wright 1904 William Gilson Farlow 1905 Calvin Milton Woodward 1906 William Henry Welch 1907 Edward Leamington Nichols 1908 Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 1909 David Starr Jordan 1910 Albert Abraham Michelson 1911 Charles Bessey 1912 Edward Charles Pickering 1913 Edmund Beecher Wilson 1914 Charles W. Eliot 1915 William Wallace Campbell 1916 Charles Richard Van Hise 1917 Theodore William Richards 1918 John Merle Coulter 1919 Simon Flexner 1920 Leland Ossian Howard 1921 Eliakim Hastings Moore 1922 James Playfair McMurrich 1923 Charles Doolittle Walcott 1924 James McKeen Cattell 1925 Michael Pupin
1926-1950	1926 Liberty Hyde Bailey 1927 Arthur Amos Noyes 1928 Henry Fairfield Osborn 1929 Robert Andrews Millikan 1930 Thomas Hunt Morgan 1931 Franz Boas 1932 John Jacob Abel 1933 Henry Norris Russell 1934 Edward L. Thorndike 1935 Karl Taylor Compton 1936 Edwin Conklin 1937 George David Birkhoff 1938 Wesley Clair Mitchell 1939 Walter Bradford Cannon 1940 Albert Francis Blakeslee 1941 Irving Langmuir 1942 Arthur Holly Compton 1943 Isaiah Bowman 1944 Anton Julius Carlson 1945 James Bryant Conant 1946 Charles Kettering 1947 Harlow Shapley 1948 Edmund Ware Sinnott 1949 Elvin Charles Stakman 1950 Roger Adams
1951-1975	1951 Kirtley Fletcher Mather 1952 Detlev Bronk 1953 Edward Condon 1954 Warren Weaver 1955 George Beadle 1956 Paul Sears 1957 Lawrence Hasbrouck Snyder 1958 Wallace Reed Brode 1959 Paul Ernest Klopsteg 1960 Chauncey Depew Leake 1961 Thomas Park 1962 Paul Magnus Gross 1963 Alan Tower Waterman 1964 Laurence M. Gould 1965 Henry Eyring 1966 Alfred Sherwood Romer 1967 Don Krasher Price 1968 Walter Orr Roberts 1969 Bentley Glass 1970 Athelstan Spilhaus 1971 Mina Rees 1972 Glenn Theodore Seaborg 1973 Leonard M. Rieser 1974 Roger Revelle 1975 Margaret Mead
1976-2000	1976 William D. McElroy 1977-1978 Emilio Q. Daddario 1979 Edward E. David Jr. 1980 Kenneth Ewart Boulding 1981 Frederick Mosteller 1982 David Allan Bromley 1983 Margaret Burbidge 1984 Anna J. Harrison 1985 David A. Hamburg 1986 Gerard Piel 1987 Lawrence Bogorad 1988 Sheila E. Widnall 1989 Walter E. Massey 1990 Richard C. Atkinson 1991 Donald N. Langenberg 1992 Leon Max Lederman 1993 Frank Sherwood Rowland 1994 Eloise E. Clark 1995 Francisco José Ayala 1996 Rita Colwell 1997 Jane Lubchenco 1998 Mildred Dresselhaus 1999 Mary Rita Cooke Greenwood 2000 Stephen Jay Gould
2001-presente	2001 Mary Lowe Good 2002 Peter Hamilton Raven 2003 Floyd E. Bloom 2004 Mary Ellen Avery 2005 Shirley Ann Jackson 2006 Gil Omenn 2007 John Holdren 2008 David Baltimore 2009 James J. McCarthy 2010 Peter Agre 2011 Alice S. Huang 2012 Nina Fedoroff 2013 William H. Press 2014 Phillip Allen Sharp

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