Robert Willis
1800–75
Engineer, architectural historian, and archaeologist. Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, 1826. Jacksonian Professor of Natural Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University, 1837–75. Lecturer on applied mechanics, Government School of Mines, London, 1853–68. FRS 1830.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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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