John Dawson (surgeon) British Mathematician
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| First Name |
John
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| Last Name |
Dawson
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1733
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| Birthplace |
Raygill, Garsdale, England
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| Died |
19th September, 1820
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| Place of Death |
Sedbergh, England
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Mathematician
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John Dawson (1734 – 19 September 1820) was both an English mathematician and surgeon. He was born at Raygill in Garsdale, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where "Dawson's Rock" celebrates the site of his early thinking about conic sections. After learning surgery from Henry Bracken of Lancaster, he worked as a surgeon in Sedbergh for a year, then went to study medicine at Edinburgh, walking 150 miles there with his savings stitched into his coat. Despite a very frugal lifestyle, he was unable to complete his degree, and had to return to Garsdale until he earned enough as a surgeon and as a private tutor in Mathematics at Sedbergh School to enable him to complete his MD from London in 1765.
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