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BY the comparatively early death of DR. R. C. MACLAURIN on January 15 last, the United States have lost an accomplished and energetic immigrant. Dr. Maclaurin was born at Lindean, Scotland, in 1870, and in 1897 was placed in the first division of the first class of the advanced part of the Mathematical Tripos. It was an unusually good year, the candidates including Grace and Bromwich. Dr. Maclaurin was also equal for the second Smith's prize. After graduating, he at first turned his attention to law, but before very long became professor of mathematics in the University of New Zealand. This post he left in 1907 to occupy the chair of mathematical physics at Columbia, N.Y., and two years later became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published one legal treatise, and two on the theory of light; besides this, he contributed various papers to the Philosophical Transactions and other periodicals.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 144 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105144b0
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