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DAVID GILL, whose death occurred in London on January 24, was born at Aberdeen on June 12, 1843. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the Dollar Academy, where Dr. Lindsay's teaching imparted to him a fondness for mathematics, physics, and chemistry. He then proceeded to Marischal College and University, Aberdeen, where his love of science increased and developed under the inspiring influence of Clerk Maxwell. He would have liked a scientific career, but his father, a prosperous Aberdeen merchant, wished his son to succeed him. Gill consented with reluctance to enter his father's business, and consoled himself by devoting all his spare time to physics and chemistry.
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D., F. Sir David Gill, K.C.B., F.R.S. . Nature 92, 635–638 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092635b0
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