Works by or about Charles Jasper Joly at Wikisource
Academic offices
Preceded byArthur Alcock Rambaut
Andrews Professor of Astronomy, Royal Astronomer of Ireland 1897–1906
Succeeded bySir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Charles Jasper Joly (27 June 1864 – 4 January 1906) was an Irish mathematician and astronomer who became Royal Astronomer of Ireland.[1][2] He was an important figure in the study of quaternions.[3]
Joly was born at St Catherine's Rectory, Hop Hill, Tullamore, County Offaly, the eldest of six children of Rev. John Swift Joly (1818-1887) and Elizabeth Slator (1835-1904). He was educated at Galway Grammar School and later at Trinity College Dublin,[4] where he took a fellowship in 1894. He became Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College.[4]
In 1897, he was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and he took up his new position at Dunsink Observatory. He was secretary of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904.[1]
In 1900 he went on the RIA/RDS eclipse expedition to Spain and later took part in the British Association visit.[3]
He and his daughter contracted typhoid shortly after his return due to infected milk.[4] He died at his residence in Dunsink, County Dublin, in 1906.[5]
Charles Joly published his articles in Royal Irish Academy journals, generally the Transactions, but as indicated below, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy in 1897, 98, and 99:
