* 4 August 1805, † 2 September 1865
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was born on 4 August 1805 in Dublin, Ireland. William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish astronomer and mathematician who discovered the quaternions. Sir William Rowan Hamilton died on 2 September 1865 in Dublin, Ireland.
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