Harry Yandell Benedict, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harry Yandell Benedict

American mathematician and astronomer

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1869

Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Date of Death: 10-May-1937

Profession: astronomer, mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Harry Yandell Benedict

  • Harry Yandell Benedict (November 14, 1869 – May 10, 1937) was an American astronomer and mathematician. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Joseph and Adele (Peters) Benedict on November 14, 1869.
  • In 1877, Benedict's brother, Carl, mother, and maternal grandfather, H.
  • J.
  • Peters, moved to Texas, onto land acquired by his great-grandfather, S.
  • W.
  • Peters.
  • The family library contained one thousand books.
  • Other than eight months of formal schooling in the cities of Graham and Weatherford, H.
  • Y.
  • Benedict was homeschooled by his mother.
  • Benedict studied civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin from 1889 to 1892, and completed a master's degree in 1893.
  • He then worked at the McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia until 1895, when he began working toward a doctorate in mathematical astronomy from Harvard University.
  • Upon completion of his studies in 1898, Benedict served as interim of mathematics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University in 1899.
  • Later that year, he began teaching mathematics at the University of Texas.
  • In 1907, Benedict was named professor of applied mathematics and astronomy.
  • He served as director of extension between 1909 and 1911, when he became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Benedict yielded the deanship in 1927 to succeed Walter Marshall William Splawn as university president.
  • Benedict remained president until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage on May 10, 1937.
  • He was the first alumnus of the university to serve as its president and the institution's longest-serving leader, as well as the first president to have headed the school's alumni association.Over the course of his career, Benedict was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a member of the American Mathematical Society, the American Astronomical Society, the American Statistical Association, among other academic organizations.

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