View source for James Ivory (scientist)

[[File:jamesivory.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Sir James Ivory]]

==Country==

Scotland

==Birth - Death==

1765 - 1842

==Occupation==

Academic

==Notable Achievements==

FRS

==Description==

Mathematician, with a specialty in geometry.  Founded Ivory's Theorem, in which the family of confocal conics has the property that in each quadrangle formed by two pairs of conics the diagonals are of equal length. Held the mathematical chair in the Royal Military College, Great Marlow.  His articles on Attraction and Capillary action were also major contributions to Encyclopaedia Britannica at the time.  Winner of the Copley Medal (1814) for his work on the orbit of comets, appointed a Member of the Royal Society (1815), and received a knighthood in 1831.  Known for his eccentricity and reclusiveness.  

==Further Reading/Research==

* http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Ivory.html
* http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/54/2/223

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