William Stanley Jevons
1835–82
Economist and philosopher of science. Studied mathematics and chemistry at University College, London, 1851–3. Assayer at the Royal Mint, Sydney, Australia, 1854–9. Made meteorological and geological observations in Australia. BA, University College, London, 1860; MA in mental philosophy and political economy, 1862. Junior tutor, Owens College, Manchester, 1863–6; professor of logic, mental and moral philosophy, and political economy, 1866–75. Developed a logical machine, later recognised as a forerunner of twentieth-century computers. Published The theory of political economy (1871) and The principles of science (1874). Professor of political economy, University College, London, 1875–80. FRS 1872.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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