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William Chauvenet was an American astronomer and mathematician. He served as a professor of mathematics and of astronomy and natural philosophy at the U. S. Naval Academy and a chancellor of Washington University.
Background
William Chauvenet was born on May 24, 1820 in Milford, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of William Marc Chauvenet, a native of Narbonne, France, who came to Boston, where he was married to Mary B. Kerr, and later removed to Milford, Pennsylvania, and still later to Philadelphia. From his father he inherited his love for music and from his mother his logical mind. In his youth he cared little for outdoor sports, but was interested in mechanical constructions and feats of legerdemain.
Education
Chauvenet attended a private school in Philadelphia conducted by Dr. Samuel Jones. Here he manifested such marked ability that Dr. Jones prevailed upon the elder Chauvenet to send him to Yale College. He entered at sixteen, and graduated in 1840 with high honors in classics and mathematics. He was a frequent contributor to the college paper and was the pianist of the Beethoven Society.
Career
About 1840 Chauvenet started to assist Prof. Alexander Dallas Bache in observations on magnetism at Girard College in Philadelphia. His career was also influenced by Sears C. Walker, to whom he attributed his interest in astronomy. In 1841 he was appointed professor of mathematics in the navy, serving on the U. S. S. Mississippi. Previous to this, however, the plan of instructing on shipboard had proved so unsatisfactory that a school for midshipmen had been established (1839) at the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia. Upon the death of Prof. David McClure in 1842, Chauvenet was placed in charge of this school. Not satisfied with the eight months’ course, he drew up a program for a two-years’ course. This was approved by Secretary of the Navy Henshaw, but before his order could be put into operation, it was revoked by his successor, Secretary Mason. The attempt nevertheless established a precedent for the exercise of power by the Department, and it was to this power that Prof. Chauvenet directed the attention of several successive secretaries of the navy.
Finally, in October 1845, Secretary George Bancroft, by the exercise of this power, established the Naval School (later called the U. S. Naval Academy) at Annapolis without going to Congress for either legislation or money. The new two years’ course, rendered ineffective by the appointment and withdrawal of midshipmen at any time, was finally changed in 1851 to a regular four years’ course. The actions resulting in this change were recommended to Congress by a board, appointed by Secretary Preston, consisting of Chauvenet and several high officers of the navy and army. Chauvenet also recommended post-graduate study and in his own department offered inducement thereto by the equipment of an astronomical observatory. This resulted in 1853 in a separate department of astronomy and navigation with him in charge.
In 1855 Yale offered him the position of professor of mathematics and in 1859 that of astronomy and natural philosophy. Simultaneously with the second offer came a similar one from Washington University, then recently established in St. Louis. He accepted the position at Washington University to which was added the chancellorship in 1862. His address, delivered upon his inauguration as chancellor, revealed a broad vision of the function of education, as well as a broad general culture and a deeply religious nature. His name conferred early distinction upon the University, which grew and prospered during his connection with it.
While in St. Louis his health became impaired so that in 1869 he was obliged to resign his position. He died the next year in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In addition to a number of papers on astronomical and mathematical subjects, Chauvenet published several text-books of great scientific merit. Of these, A Trealise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry (1850) is regarded by the Journal of Franklin Institute as “the most complete treatise on trigonometry extant in the English language. ” His greatest work, A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy (1863), had as great a reputation in Europe as in America. Prof. Herman Struve, director of the Königliche Sternwarte in Berlin, considered it the best work in existence on practical astronomy. These two works are classics in their respective fields. Chauvenet’s last work, A Treatise on Elementary Geometry, with Appendices Containing a Collection of Exercises for Students and an Introduction to Modern Geometry (1870) was also outstanding in its field.
Achievements
Chauvenet was well known as one of the founders of U. S. Naval Academy and he did more than anyone else to establish the Academy on a firm and scientific basis. Among his noteworthy labors in St. Louis were his History of the St. Louis Bridge (1881), a contribution on “The theory of the Ribbed Arch” and the design of a device for measuring modulus of elasticity, both of which were of service in the construction of this famous bridge.
On July 31, 1916, a memorial in the form of a bronze tablet was placed in the Naval Academy Library at Annapolis. In 1925 the Mathematical Association of America honored his memory by establishing “The Chauvenet Prize for Mathematical Exposition” to be awarded every five years.
Chauvenet was elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was one of the incorporators of the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was elected vice-president in 1868, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of his death.
Connections
In 1841 Chauvenet married Catherine Liemple of Philadelphia.
