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About William Chauvenet
William Chauvenet was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
Everything about William Chauvenet →- Occupation
- mathematician, astronomer, university teacher
- Position held
- chancellor, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 24, 1820
- Died
- December 13, 1870