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The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) (Irish: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a statutory independent research institute in Ireland.It was established in 1940 on the initiative of the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, in Dublin.
Luke O’Connor Drury (born 1953 in Dublin) is an Irish mathematician and astrophysicist at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) with research interests in plasma physics, particle acceleration, gas dynamics, shock waves, and cosmic rays. He was President of the Royal Irish Academy from 2011 to 2014. [1] [2]
The observatory was established by an endowment of £3,000 in the will of Francis Andrews, who was Provost of Trinity College Dublin at his death on 18 June 1774. The site was established on the south slope of a low hill in the townland of Dunsink, 84m above sea level. [2]
Erected by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) in 1958. The Hamilton Walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broom Bridge on the Royal Canal in Dublin takes place on 16 October each year. This is the anniversary of the day in 1843 when William Rowan Hamilton discovered the non-commutative algebraic system known as quaternions , while ...
She returned to Dublin to take up an assistant professorship in Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) under her brother Thomas Francis O'Rahilly in 1946, later becoming full professor sometime after 1956, the first woman to hold the post. [4]
Sheila Tinney, Paul Dirac, and other physicists and mathematicians at DIAS in 1942. Sheila Christina Power was the fourth of six children born in Galway city to Michael Power [a.k.a. Mícheál de Paor, originally from rural Kilkenny, Chair of Mathematics at University College Galway (UCG) from 1912 to 1955] and Christina Cunniffe (who died in childbirth when Sheila was 12).
In 1972, he moved to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies on the retirement of John L. Synge, [1] where he served as director of the School of Theoretical Physics. He was an honorary professor at Swansea, Cardiff and Trinity College, Dublin. [3] He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and was its senior vice-president in 1988. [1]
The Bristol facility had frequently co-operated with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), and in 1953 Ó Ceallaigh became a Senior Professor and Head of the Cosmic Ray Section at that institution. [8]