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Tait, Peter Guthrie, (1831-1901), mathematician and physicist

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Surname: Tait
Forenames: Peter Guthrie
Gender: Male
Date: 1831-1901
Biography: ODNB link for Tait, Peter Guthrie (1831-1901), mathematician and physicist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P135524 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P27892 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Peter Guthrie Tait
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1869-91: corresp and lecture notes
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll/234
2
1850-92: corresp and papers as secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.10000
3
1893-94: letters received
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.1004
4
MS treatise on the dynamics of a particle
Cambridge University: Peterhouse Library
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
5
1859-79: corresp with James Clerk-Maxwell (167 items)
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 7655
NRA 24528 Clerk-Maxwell
6
1860-67: letters (13) to James David Forbes
St Andrews University Library
msdep7
NRA 13132
7
1858-64: letters (c100) to Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Trinity College Dublin
MS 1492
NRA 20076 Hamilton
8
1861-1901: corresp with Lord Kelvin (169 items)
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 7342, 7656
NRA 20700 Stokes
9
1858-98: corresp with Lord Kelvin (103 items)
Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department
MS Kelvin
NRA 10032
10
1891-1902: letters to Lord Rayleigh (16)
United States Air Force Academy, McDermott Library
MS 63/4
NRA 18694

See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
11
1860-99: corresp with Sir George Stokes (151 items)
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 7342, 7656
NRA 20700 Stokes