Cargill Gilston Knott

1856 - 1922

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Cargill Knott graduated from Edinburgh University and was then an assistant in the Physics department. With Barclay and Fraser he was one of the writers who originally proposed the founding of the EMS. He went to the Imperial University in Tokyo as Professor. He returned to a lectureship in Edinburgh and eventually became a Reader in Applied Mathematics. He became Secretary and Treasurer of the EMS in 1883 and President in 1893 and 1918.
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  1. Obituary: Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  2. Obituary: Royal Society

Honours awarded to Cargill Knott
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EMS Founder Member1883
EMS Treasurer1883
EMS Secretary1883
EMS President1893
EMS President1918
Fellow of the Royal Society1920

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